Why Fully Automated Television Is A BAD IDEA! Anywhere! The good news is, this blooper reel was put together by human hands. The bad news is, that’s about all they get to touch at BBC News, as the whole system is automated, and here are some of the embarrassing results of that decision. The biggest […]
LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT! Last night, I was an eyewitness to live television entertainment’s only living legacy…’Saturday Night Live’. I sat on the front row of the floor seats. Looking at the stage, I was on the left side in the corner seat…only three seats on the front row and to my […]
Who Knew Atlanta, GA and Mayberry, NC were so close? Below in pink, you see Tara from ‘Gone With The Wind’ and under it, the Mayberry set for the ‘Andy Griffith Show’ on the ‘Back Forty’. Forty Acres was a film studio backlot that belonged to RKO Pictures and later Desilu Productions, located in Culver […]
December 22, 1963…The Judy Garland Christmas Special Our friend George Sunga was the production supervisor on Judy’s series. This show was shot with the new Marconi Mark IV black and white cameras in Television City’s Studio 43. The video and audio is exceptional…state of the art for 1963. This also includes the original commercials. Two […]