Rare Classic! Ed Sullivan Taping Holiday On Ice With TK41s
Rare Classic! Ed Sullivan Taping Holiday On Ice With TK41s
Be aware there are two video links in this post. The embedded link (at the bottom of this post) is great home movie footage of the taping at Madison Square Gardens in 1967. This link is to the air version of the show on air, so you can see how it came out. #t=94″ target=”_blank”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjSsctTLovY #t=94
I notice Producer Bob Precht and Floor Manager Eddie Brinkmann are wearing different clothes in later shots, but I think this was all shot in one day. They may have changed after rehearsal and cut ins when an audience was brought in. I understand part of the budget included spiked golf shoes for the crew so they could walk on the ice without slipping.
Although the RCA TK41s have CBS Color logos, they are not from a CBS mobile unit, as no one there remembers a company owned color mobile unit before the Norelco cameras came along. The cameras are most likely from a truck rented from either WOR or Video Tape Center.
I see Director Tim Kiley at the front of this and I think I see AD John Moffitt too. Producer Bob Precht is the tall blond man. At around 4:20, there is a very familiar looking man in glasses. Do you know who that is? I think he is a comedian, but I can’t call his name. Enjoy and share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afvi0gitInQ
Holiday On Ice 1967 (U. S. A)….At Madison Square Garden for afternoon taping for The Ed Sullivan Show….cameos of Lighting Director Don Watson, Company Ma…
Bobby, VTC was B/W until 1967. They rented color remote trucks from third parties when they needed to shoot color, and parked it in the loading dock.
Could the comedian had been Jackie Vernon? As for the remote cameras, was there a place in operation out of NYC called Lou Ron Productions then?
Heading up in St. Paul, MN to check the 3M company records in depth, but according to what I could find on-line, Video Tape Center did not own any color camera chains prior to colorizing the studio in 1967. CBS was a regular Tele-tape remote truck customer at the time, could they have been from them?