Here’s a WNBC TK76 shooting a local news segment on the movie in production and some of the traffic problems it was causing around town in 1984. Did you know that the original casting was intended to be John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy as the Ghostbusters and John Candy as Lewis/Gozier? Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
February 1, 1982…”Late Night With David Letterman” Debuts On this date in 1982, Dave’s show replaced Tom Snyder’s ‘Tomorrow’ show, and at the end of the first week, the ratings were 30% better than Snyder’s. These three clips are from the debut night and show us the start, a tour of Studio 6A which ends […]
November 17, 1968…’Heidi’ Trumps The Jets – Raiders Finale On NBC I remember watching this…I had just turned 18. Did you see this? For all intents and purposes, it looked like the Jets had won and with only a minute left, there was no way for an Oakland comeback…BUT, comeback they DID! Here’s a great […]
CinemaScope If Cinerama was the star that guided the film industry into wide screen presentations, CinemaScope was the rudder that steered the course. If you look closely at the photo below, you can see the essence of CinemaScope. See the long oval in the camera lens? That is the CinemaScope anamorphic lens used to photograph […]
Here is the one of two very rare lenses donated to the Pavek Museum…this one is a 27 element Zoomar long lens used at CBS Television City (the other lens is in the next post down on this page). Although Steve does not have the full history on these 2 great rarities, this one has […]