The FIRST SELFIE on TV 1958 - NBC TV - The Perry Como Show with Live Polaroid Land Camera Commercial

Taken from a clip from NBC TV's The Perry Como Show. See Perry introduce Don Ameche who hawks the Polaroid Land cameras - and takes a live picture right on stage with himself and Perry.

[@1911geek]

Perry Como the first documented selfie attempt

[@musicom67]

I will re-title the video as such ;-)

[@grimaceispurple]

Polaroid was the Apple of its day 📸

[@jrusso7660]

I bought a J66 in an antique store the other day. So cool to have such a vintage camera. :)

[@carmonacrafts1972]

Thumbs up to the fellow taking the first selfie in history at 37 seconds into the video 📷

[@TobyJae]

Terrific memory! For years I used a large format studio camera with a Polaroid back. It was fantastic; a true mini miracle in a box with a ground glass. I miss the snap of the lever and all the special "fun" one can have with a Polaroid system...

[@fromthesidelines]

This couldn't have been from"1960", because Perry was under the full sponsorship of Kraft Foods on Wednesday nights by then ('PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL"). This is from his Saturday night show of the late '50s ("THE PERRY COMO SHOW"), which had several sponsors during the hour- one of them being Polaroid. I'd say this was telecast in 1958, because Steve Allen did a similar live Polaroid spot, with his guest Lou Costello, on his Sunday night show at the time.

[@YankeeRebel1348]

I would love to be that guy in the picture with perry lol

[@deweydodo6691]

There's salesmanship . That's why Polaroid sold so many cameras .

[@LordPoogie]

50s selfie

[@musicom67]

@fromthesidelines Since we watch the same videos, and I seem to follow you wherever you comment, and find your wealth of information absolutely astounding, informative, and ultimately fascinating, a correction is duly noted - However, I came upon this year because I sourced it from an NBC Archival tape (directly from the NBC Tape Library - shhhhh!) which was dated 1960 (I'm a video editor at CNBC)....

[@musicom67]

@fromthesidelines LOL! Oh, I remember those typewrited card catalogs REAL well... ;-) Figures the info was unreliable.....BTW, half of that collection I hear is in rough shape....

[@fromthesidelines]

Interesting! Just because something's officially labeled "such and such" doesn't necessarily mean it WAS. I remember going to the Museum Of Broadcasting (before it became the Museum of Television and Radio, NOW known as the Paley Center For Media) long ago, and I looked at their card catalog {"what's that?"}. They had information on those cards that was either incomplete or just erroneous [I remember reading a title for an "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" episode, in their collection, that was incorrect].

[@douglasgoodwin]

This is really great! I'm collecting all the Polaroid spots I can find. Do you have any idea where I could find a higher-resolution copy?

[@alessandrogatti9766]

Thumb uf if you think perry is italian!

[@CharlieKdiary]

i can haz pathfinder?

[@michaelmcgee8543]

forgo to roll that smelly coat over the picture or it will fade,like most of Como;a video tapes,

[@musicom67]

+Michael Mcgee LOLOL. Brilliant. As an aside, this source was actually a "lenticular {color} kinescope" using b/w film of a color broadcast. Color videotape wasn't perfected just yet. Just wonder why NBC didn't use b/w videotape for these archives.