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4 records found for Hal Roach Sr.

#586: ART OF FILM, THE

1964-01-05, WNDT, 19 min.

Stanley Kauffmannn uses excerpts from three Hal Roach Sr. comedies to examine the techniques of Laurel and Hardy.

#753B: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE

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1964-08-17, NBC, 57 min.

October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.

This is the earliest extant COLOR Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. There is an "Adventures of Johnny Chan" skit, introduced by Jack Haskell, which is performed by Johnny Carson and guest Barbara Eden. Other guest include Al Capp, with many anecdotes, Harry Golden who talks disparagingly about Barry Goldwater and discusses his appraisal of Robert Kennedy who is running for Senate in New York.
Johnny Carson talks lovingly about the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy. He mentions a recent phone call he had with Stan Laurel, and airs a clip from a 1923 movie starring Stan Laurel, "Kill or Cure."
Singer, Karen Rondell sing, "As Long as He Needs Me."
Commercials include:
Alpo dog food, Sucral sugar substitute, L&M cigarettes, NBC plug upcoming Convention, Bromo Seltzer, Green Mint mouthwash, and Poligrip denture adhesive cream.

#753: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE

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1967-12-14, NBC, 10 min.

October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.



Johnny Carson's reminisces with Hal Roach Sr. about Laurel and Hardy.

#5866: TOMORROW SHOW WITH TOM SNYDER, THE

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1977-09-13, WNBC, 56 min.

October 15, 1973-January 28, 1982.

Tom Snyder's solo guest is Film Director Frank Capra who once before appeared on The Tomorrow Show in 1974 with a panel of other guests.

Tom Snyder discusses rumors related to himself, all untrue. Examples such as he will be returning to broadcasting the News on NBC, and considering anchoring the Today Show.

Frank Capra discusses a myriad of topics including the telecasting of the Academy Awards (too long), He states that when making motion pictures there are no bad actors, only bad directors...remembering making "Dirigible" (1931) and using "dry ice" in actor's mouths to assimilate vapor which created major problems for the actors. Favorite actors he has worked with...his first entrance in films as a director for Walter Montague making a 12 minute short film, "The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House" in two days with amatuer actors, Capra remembers working for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach as a writer...his great five Oscar winning film "It Happened One NIght," at which time he thought this is the profession he wanted to be in for the rest of his life (up till then not sure). Frank Capra relates to Tom Snyder how he got a reluctant Claudette Colbert to lift her skirt in a scene. He states that most of his films had an Idealistic point of view focusing on the average man and how "lost causes" are never given into.
The effect of Television is discussed and Capra admits that as marvelous as this media is he could never work in it because he would not be able to have the independence that he required to make a film of his choosing.

An hour-long talk show hosted by Tom Snyder. Network television's first entry into late-late-night programming on weeknights Monday thru Thursday, usually broadcasting on tape 1 AM to 2 AM. "Tomorrow" was expanded to 90 minutes on September 16, 1980.