<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dennis and Ted,<div><br></div><div>The cameraman was an actor. I don't have his name in front of me but it was all a gag of course. Therefore I'm sure the TK-41 he was running was an empty shell.</div><div><br></div><div>Orchestra? On a later scene the band is stage left.</div><div><br></div><div>Paper work in the box confirms studio one. BTW, this was a complicated show with commercials coming from NBC-NY including a pre-taped remote at an Ice Skating Rink on W. 50th Street (Dennis?) and live commercials coming from studio 3B in N.Y. </div><div><br></div><div>More later.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span">David<br><br></font><br><br></div></span>
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<br><div><div>On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Apr 18, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> Live orchestra! The vamp timing up to Jerry's beginning to sing is a clue. Do you know the usual NBC practice at that time for locating the orchestra if it didn't appear on camera? Same studio in a corner, or in another studio?</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I say:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Most likely in the same studio. Why locate the orchestra somewhere else?</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ted sed:</div><div><br></div><div>> Have to wonder whether the "camera operator" was an actual operator/NABET and got a fee or was AFTRA/SAG??</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I'll bet:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>He was an actor. That's AFTRA/SAG.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ted:</div><div><br></div><div>> Any clues as to which of the Burbank studios the show used? Looks like at least one of the TK's had a zoom lens.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I say:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I read on David's site that this was Studio 1. And if you notice from one of the shots, you can see the wall in front of the audience seating in the background (at around 2:57). Burbank's only studio with built-in permanent audience seating was Studio 1.</div></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>NBC Today Show, New York<br><br></span>
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