Today, he would have been 100 years old.
“Whatever the cost of education, the price is cheap compared with an ignorant nation”. -Walter Cronkite
This is Mr. Cronkite in Studio 42 at the CBS Grand Central studios.
This is part of the first ever dramatic television broadcast called “The Queen’s Messenger” and what you are seeing in this clip below is how they shot a close up scene that concentrated on the actors hands, and what they had in them. The experiment was broadcast by GE’s Schenectady, New York television station […]
March 2, 1951…Desilu Empire Begins With The “I Love Lucy” Pilot On March 2, 1951, the pilot episode for “I Love Lucy” was shot at the CBS Columbia Square Studios on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. It was shot with three RCA TK30 Image Orthicon cameras and recorded via kinescope. When Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball […]
Carson’s Debut: ‘Tonight Show’, October 1, 1962 The “official” guests that night were Joan Crawford (seen here), Mel Brooks, Tony Bennett and Rudy Vallee. His “unofficial” guest was Groucho Marx who (as you can hear in the audio clip above) actually introduced Johnny for the first time…Ed introduced Carson for a second time that night […]
Guess What This Door Used To Be… Here’s a clue: in the 50s, people lined up here to see the most famous of all television shows. Source
