Free The Kinescopes! is a page devoted to early television history. Be sure to check out our companion page 'The SBC Archive'. We believe in universal access to all television. The kinescope process was one in which live television programs were recorded via a small video monitor onto 16mm or 35mm film. This was the only way to preserve live television for time-shifting, rebroadcast or sale of tv programs. Kinescopes were made obsolete by the invention of videotape, which became commercially available in 1956/57. However, they were still used all the way up through the early 1970s as a means of videotape backup, or for preservation since videotape was frequently erased and reused. This page will focus mainly on these early tv recordings dating from the late 1940s through the late 1960s. Kinescope also went by 'Teletranscriptions' in the USA and 'Telerecordings' in the UK.
In 1934, Harry Owens was hired as the music director of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu. He quickly became interested in the Hawaiian music. He was the first to put the music down on sheet music. Harry Owens also introduced the steel guitar to it and discovered Hilo Hattie. I watched this program when I was a kid with parents on KTLA.
I’m not Ardon’s, but as a child, I would watch them on TV and it gave me an interesting gave me a confidence to start drawing. Which gave me lots of pleasure all through grade school and high school.
The instrumentation of Bèethoven's 5th Symphony is as follows: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clariinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 2 French horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings. The piccolo, contrabassoon and trombones do not come in until the last movement.
The legendary Alistair Cooke serving as host, and doing a great job! The Symphony of the Air(the former NBC Symphony) was not formally dissolved until late 1963, as per Wikipedia.
I have not seen the Dairy Queen commercial since it was first on television . I was a little at a time and I thought it was Peter Noone ,Herman of Herman's Hermits . When I met Peter a few years ago I asked him if he was in a Dairy Queen commercial , he told me no .Look at the Dairy Queen commercial , do you blame me for thinking it was Herman ?
I was about six or seven when they made this. It was filmed less than a mile from my house. We used to watch it after school on our 17 inch tv. Old memories.
They are a far, far cry from the Queen Mary and King Elizabeth, but if ever i face the angry turbulent flames of the briny deep i want Jane and Goodman Ace's luxurious caramels aboard!
This is kind of WML and IGaS rolled together. As a kid, Dorothy and Bennett on WML kind of scared me. But I like everyone here and would have then if I had been a couple years older.
Franchot Tone is usually, a kinda dull actor, stuck in kinda, dull scripts. But, NOT this time. This was quite good, surprisingly. Seen many of these 'Tales Of Tomorrow' episodes, throughout the years, but not this one.
Saw this live in Portland OR, and never forgot it. What thrill to catch it again some seventy-two years later. Yikes! Just after I think was Liberace in B&W !
Much better with original Grauer announcements at beginning and end and shots of the audience not seen in the RCA Toscanini Edition version! Thank you so much for posting this.
A MAN AND HIS DOG -Earl Hamner, Jr. An old man and his dog were walking down a dirt road for quite sometime when they finally came to a beautiful marble wall with a golden gate. The person standing guard was dressed in a white robe and said: "Welcome to Heaven". It was then the old man realized he and his dog were dead and traveling down Eternity Trail. They both were hot and very thirsty as they had been walking for a long time. The old man was so happy to be at Heaven's gate. He started to enter with his dog following him but the gatekeeper stopped him and said: "I'm sorry, but dogs are not allowed in Heaven so he can't come in with you", as he gestured towards the man's dog. The old man replied: "But my dog has been my faithful companion all his life. If my dog can't come in with me, then I will stay out too. I will not desert him now, not even to enter Heaven." The gatekeeper replied: "Suit yourself, but I must warn you, the Devil's on this road and he'll try to sweet talk you into his area. He will promise you anything to get you to enter. So if you don't leave your dog now and come in, you will spend eternity on this road hot and thirsty or end up in Hell." But the old man still refused to enter and continued walking along the dirt road with his dog. After walking a long ways further, the man and his dog came upon a rundown fence with no gate. He saw a man dressed in old ragged clothes just on the other side, standing next to a large shady tree. The old man called out to him saying: "Excuse me Sir. My dog and I have been on this road all day and are very hot and thirsty. Would it be okay if we took a much needed rest under your shady tree?" "Of course", the other man replied. "There's some cold water under the tree too. So please come in and help yourselves." The old man asks: "Are you inviting my dog too, because I won't come in without him. In fact, that's why I chose not to go to Heaven because I was told dogs are not allowed." The man smiled and said, "Welcome to Heaven, and bring your dog!" The old man exclaimed, "You mean this is Heaven? And dogs are allowed? How come that fellow down the road said they weren't?" "That was the Devil and he gets all the souls who are willing to give up a life long companion for a few small comforts. Those who choose that route soon find out their mistake but it's too late. The dogs always find their way here and the fickle people who abandoned them stay in Hell, for eternity." "You see my friend, GOD would not allow dogs to be banned from Heaven. After all, He created them to be man's companions in life, so He would never separate them in death." -end
I love sinister deep-voiced Hilda Vaughn who played the villainous. She also played Jean Harlow’s blackmailing maid in Dinner at Eight and other various characters - some of them very nice! - through the years.
I read this story in my English textbook in Junior High (when I was supposed to be reading something else!) Oh well, I became a writer! And that's Billy Barty as Dikkon!
I remember Will from Sugarfoot. I met him at an autograph show, he looked the same in his old age, such a sweet man. I saw Paul at a bar once, he had bodyguards around him.
I was reading the reviews for the 1956 show Science Fiction Theater and 25 reviewers loved it but one reviewer said Tales of Tomorrow was better, so here I am. Thanks for posting. BTW, Science Fiction Theater is much better, lol.
This was 6 years before Johnny took over for Jack Paar. This show was short lived and a disappointment for Johnny. He had to pay his dues like anyone else.
