Rare! CBS Studio 41 (Grand Central) Spec Sheets…1960
Ultra Rare! CBS Studio 41 (Grand Central) Spec Sheets…1960
At 44′ X 60′, this is the smaller of the two studios at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue. The CBS Grand Central studios were on the third floor and the scenery door was on Depew Place at the building’s southeast entrance. CBS had been in this location since 1936 and stayed till 1964. I think 41 was Walter Cronkite’s home base before the move to the Broadcast Center. I will be posting the spec sheets from the other Grand Central studios in the coming days, but have more research to do in advance of that. Notice on the third page, it states that one of the four cameras was mounted on a “long tongue” Houston Fearless Panoram dolly that was shared with Studio 42. I will be posting photos of that rarity and some other shots from Grand Central just after this post. Many thanks to Gady Rienhold for this information.
How I wish this studio could be resurrected. I believe that today it’s a tennis court.
wow! real echo chambers! All digital these days
Didn’t Cronkite do the show from Graybar for a while?
At the 2:33 mark, just retired ‘CBS Evening News’ director Eric Shariro shows us the way Cronkite and his associates would make their way from the news department on one side of the terminal to the studio. It was usually a mad dash. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/evening-news-marks-golden-anniversary-of-30-minute-broadcast/