YouTube user linguica took a short scene from The Wire and added a laugh track to it–mining the show, Married With Children for the recorded laughs. The result is pretty disconcerting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIi0dzmvpE
The Wire With a Laugh Track
Jess Oppenheimer and the TelePrompTer
Sanford and Son: The Show Within the Show
The Cosby Show: Recording with Ikegami Cameras
Behind the Scenes at I Love Lucy
A History of Videotape Editing
This informative article is not directly about sitcoms, but so many of them in the 1970s were videotaped that it seems pertinent. “Video editing pioneers didn’t have the simple pleasures we take for granted today. As you may already know,Read more…
Sitcom Audience Tickets
I Love Lucy and DP Karl Freund
AmericanRadioHistory.Com
Holy crap! AmericanRadioHistory.com has “two million pages of AM, FM & TV Broadcasting history online”! Tons and tons of cool PDFs of both radio and TV trade magazines. A terrific resource for radio/TV scholars. via AmericanRadioHistory.Com – Documenting the HistoryRead more…