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…
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
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…
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren on a Sitcom
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…