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…
The Cosby Show: Recording with Ikegami Cameras
Behind the Scenes at I Love Lucy
A History of Videotape Editing
Sitcom Audience Tickets
I Love Lucy and DP Karl Freund
Elaine Stritch in The Honeymooners?
I recently learned that Elaine Stritch, who died in 2014, was in the original sketch for The Honeymooners that appeared on DuMont network’s Cavalcade of Stars, in 1951. That led me to a fruitless search for images of her in that sketch.Read more…
Dumont Kinescope Machines
Edward R. Murrow on CBS “Television City”
CBS Television City Studio 33
Bobby Ellerbee comments: “Perhaps the most famous of the TVC studios is 33. This is the only one left that has the side wings and the built in theater seating. Here is a shot from behind the lighting directors consoleRead more…