TeleTales #7…For Queen And Country, But Not On A Dare

On January 18, 2015 - TV History

TeleTales #7…For Queen And Country, But Not On A Dare

I get queeze just looking at this, and we only see about half of what looks to be about a 40 foot platform without a rope or rail in site. This is CBC cameraman in Halifax, Nova Scotia covering the 1959 royal visit from Queen Elizabeth. Enjoy and share, but don’t tell OSHA. -Bobby Ellerbee

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14 Comments

  1. Gordon GoGo Gower January 20, 2015

    Back when you TV slobs actually dressed like gentlemen 🙂

  2. George Cauttero January 19, 2015

    And he’s wearing a proper jacket. Gotta look good when you are defying death.

  3. Bob Paine January 19, 2015

    I want a rail around it or I ain’t going up! 🙂

  4. David Breneman January 19, 2015

    I don’t know what’s worse – manning the camera, or hauling it up there.

  5. Don Patterson January 18, 2015

    The ladder looks a bit sketchy too!! His camera cable is, however, wrapped securely around the post!!!

  6. Charles MacDonald January 18, 2015

    Yes, as a federally regulated organization in Canada The CBC would have had to deal with Labour Canada on this.

  7. Steve Dichter January 18, 2015

    Don’t think OSHA cares what happens north of the border.

  8. Joey Schwartz January 18, 2015

    CBC used mostly RCA cameras at that time. In the late 1960s, some of their colour NTSC cameras were Philips (not Norelco) cameras. CBHT was the main CBC station in the Maritimes.

  9. Terry Ricketts January 18, 2015

    An RCA, not a Marconi?

  10. Greg Dunlap January 18, 2015

    safety chains and harnesses…only the Americans need those kinds of crutches, eh?!

  11. John Flanagan January 18, 2015

    I’m weak in the knee’s just looking at it!

  12. Gary Walters January 18, 2015

    The CBC-TV website has a great digital archive, showing coverage of both Queen Elizabeth II, and President Eisenhower as they dedicated the St. Lawrence Seaway System in Montreal in 1959.
    http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/the-monarchy/canadas-new-queen/queen-opens-st-lawrence-seaway.html

  13. Jack Gallagher January 18, 2015

    “No one was harmed in the production of this television broadcast”

  14. Bruce Hansen January 18, 2015

    Just the thought of, how did they get that camera up there, makes me cringe.