‘The Pontiac Star Parade’ 1959
On September 16, 2013
- TV History
‘The Pontiac Star Parade’ 1959
Here’s Gene Kelly in the dress rehearsal at NBC Burbank. At the link below you can see another clip from the show that gives you a good look at one of the huge studios and some pretty fancy crane camera work at the start. The cameras were RCA TK41s.
It is either studio 2 or 3. DD is likely right, given the elephant doors artwork.
It looks like Studio 2 to me.
…here’s what amazes me ! ..the exceptional talent of Gene Kelly, AND his guests ! ..the wonderful, extremely tight sounding orchestra ! ..and the images done by a 1950’s era color camera ! ! ! ..thanks for posting this ! ! ..also, love seeing the color NBC chimes logo on the 41 ! !
That Pontiac Star Parade excerpt I uploaded on my oldtvhistory channel came from NBC’s 50th Anniversary special from 1976, I got a DVD copy of it from a guy who recorded it back then on Betamax, there’s quite a number of rare 50s/60s colour TV excerpts in the special 🙂 . I wish I could somehow get a hold of the whole show, would be good to see it in its entirety 🙂