[78-L] Speaking of vintage TV, was Re: Autographs

[David Lennick]

Pardon me for hijacking the thread, but this gives me the opportunity to rave 
about this:
http://www.criterion.com/films/3560

Fabulous stuff from Playhouse 90, Studio One etc. All taken from grainy 
scratchy kinescopes. Deal with it. "The Comedian" will leave you with your jaw 
on the floor as you realize that it was done LIVE (except for obvious crowd 
scenes in the montage).

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
>> I meant Omnibus.   Jeff S.
> 
> I was going to mention the possibility of Omnibus or Camera 3.  Robert
> Saudek was the producer of Omnibus and supposedly had a complete set of
> shows which he had dubbed for both the Museum of Broadcasting and the
> Library of Congress when he was at each of these institutions.  
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
>>> The Bassman version was prepared for a television performance
>>> from the mid-50s, I believe on Monitor. I once held a reel of
>>> 16MM film which was a Kinescope of this performance. Who knows
>>> where that Kini is now. Jeff Sultanof
>> Monitor was a radio program, not TV. But it sounds like something jazz
>> film collector Dave Chertok might have had. His son still circulates
>> his films. Dave Weiner might know.
>>
>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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