1966-NBC 40th Anniversary Special
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2016
- -From November 13, 1966 this special celebrates NBC's 40th anniversary as a network. Chet Huntley, co-anchor of the evening "Huntley-Brinkley Report" newscast hosts and narrates. Also features appearances by Ralph Edwards, Bob Hope, Rudy Vallee, Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx (who is interviewed by his then wife Eden Hartford Marx).
-Those expecting a mega-clip fest like NBC would do a decade later for their famous four-hour 50th Anniversary show won't see it here. The archival material is limited (a testament to how much NBC wasn't saving at this point) and the focus is more news/documentary approach to the telling of NBC's history. But it is a fascinating look-back at an anniversary moment when NBC was fewer years removed from its beginnings than we are now from this special! 
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This is incredible and invaluably meaningful. Thanks so much for uploading this television gem classic!
Thanks for posting this Gem!! Although it’s been 56 years since this celebration I just watched today! Great and historical clips that I have never seen before! if anyone wants to understand the digital media now days this program is a must! Thanks Again!! Watching the Bonanza boys talking in Japanese was wonderful!!!
I love this. Chet Huntley was a consummate professional journalist. And unlike the later anniversary shows, this special highlights NBC from the beginning not just 30 years or so like the 80s special.
To whomever brought this to us, thank you!
You're welcome!
Sincere thanks to you and WGW for your efforts to share this gem. It is much appreciated.
You're welcome and it was a pleasure! Hopefully later the NBC 50th can be uploaded. (The four hour running time is holding me back at the moment).
epaddon I can't wait for that to happen! 😁
It's amazing to see one of the original soundmen using the original equipment to re-create the sound effect for Fibber McGee's closet. And to see the interview with Marty Halperin, one of the pioneers of OTR collecting.
TV was certainly much different back in 1966!
Thank you so very much for this.
My dad told me he met bob hope in vietman he told me ate with the troops he said bob hope is a nice guy
You can tell that this NBC special was recorded with an early VTR off of a TV set, probably an old RCA Roundie, which is why you can detect a somewhat abnormal rolling in the opening credits.
You sure can.
46:40 - That's Arnold Stang with Milton Berle. Stang began as a child radio-actor, on shows like "Let's Pretend".
The "Amos 'N Andy" soundbite at 14:56 of this clip had to have been from an episode no earlier than 1943 because prior to that time, the show didn't have a studio audience.
Not surprising. In those days the use of archival material was quite minimal in these kinds of specials.
And how ironic 54 years later we're dealing with another "worst depression" on top of a killer virus.
No depression.
thanks for posting
I think this may have been a local program seen only on KNBC-TV in the Los Angeles area.
Chet Huntley worked at KNBC-TV (then KNBH) for a few years in the early-to-mid 1950's prior to joining the network.
CIVIC CENTER Poughkeepsie NY AUGUST 25TH 1996
Beautiful.....the good old days.
14:28 - Professor Vallee (in his Joe Franklin-esque office) peters out after a long diatribe about his successes (11:58 - and to being a sucker to NBC [who 'managed' him at first], who made all the money) - and how apparently the Coast Guard ruined his career and his barely-hidden bitterness towards everyone. Happy 40th Anniversary, NBC!!!
My sister's friend met Rudy in the 70s at some event, she said he was the foulest talking person she ever met, and had spittle running down from each side of his mouth...
Chet Huntley was born in 1911, so he was watching the first years as a teenager.
An interesting historical piece on the first 40 years of NBC radio/television.
Chet Huntley actually predicted the future better than Arthur C. Clarke, in that closing stanza. Instant communications worldwide. " Pocket transmitter receivers ", which is cell phones, as far as I know that to be at this point. " Voice, sight, or the written word. ". The latter being text message, for example, or even stream comments.
The US were years ahead of Britain with color television. 1966 and this is in color, with color TV starting in the 1950s. Over in Britain it wouldn't be until July 1967 before they got color TV, but it didn't become universal until the mid 70s in Britain.
We won the color wars but hd was Japan
26:36. Yeah David!! Keep out of this--BRINKLEY!! Gen. Sarnoff was the BMOC (Big Man On Campus [with the "campus" being NBC and RCA in those days])!! LOL!! :) :)
46:37 - No mention at all of the inventor of that mechanical television (the very first television system): John Logie Baird, who invented television while working in England. He also invented video recording, by recording some of his experiments on 78 rpm aluminum discs. But they couldn't be played back until the 1980s, when another man invented a system to convert those audio recordings to video signals.
In England, the BBC tested Baird's mechanical system against the electronic system that EMI had developed. It was immediately obvious that EMI's system was far superior, so it was the system the BBC adopted.
Fun facts: Gen. Sarnoff brought Toscanini out of retirement in 1937 to head the Symphony, and they played in studio 8H, which is the same studio SNL tapes in.
Fabulous
Your Favorite NBC shows is Bonanza,I Dream of Jeannie,The Mother's in-law,Little House on the Prairie,Wagon Train,Get Smart,High Chaparral,The Tonight Show,Gimme a Break,Sanford and son,Daniel Boone,Jeopardy,Chico and the man,McMillian and Wife,Truth or Consequences, Highway to Heaven,Emergency,Dean martin show,Flip Wilson Show,Family ties,Adam 12,my two dads,All of them.
uhh. nah, you don't know our favorite shows.
You left out Concentration and Jeopardy, also Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
Lemme guess: you rode the short bus to school.
Your not a Trekker or a Pre-Fab Four.
0:57 from cat whisker to peacock
13:55 Nowadays called “saying the quiet part out loud”
@4:50 Lorne Greene speaking Canadian
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Pretty sure Amos and Andy wouldn’t be allowed on the air now….
Less than a month later I arrived in this world
WPIX's 50th video anniversary has been blacked out on the WPIX website - anybody got that?
I have their 40th anniversary special from 1988. Although I got lucky with this one, my failure to get the NBC 50th up has me leery of what's safe to put up here and what isn't from a station/network anniversary standpoint.
@@epaddonwhat about the 60th
Bob Hope's statement sounds like the beginning of "Political Correctness"! The year of this special, 1966, was the very year that the TV version of AMOS N' ANDY was withdrawn from syndication!
Good! Political incorrectness is horrible. And Political correctness is just another way of saying that you're a decent person.
Anything you don’t like is “political correctness.” Obviously the decade or century is irrelevant.
I LOVE shit like this!!
Anybody have the NBC 50th and 75th anniversary specials, the CBS 50th anniversary special, and the ABC 25th and 40th anniversary specials? (Maybe I wasn't talking to you.)
The problem with uploading those specials is that they're more apt to get copyright violations slapped on them for the excess of musical performance clips in them (in particular the 50th anniversary special).
And for reasons I won't elaborate on further, my suspicions on this point were proved correct.
@@epaddon You could upload them on Dailymotion or Vimeo?
I actually did on Dropbox.
www.dropbox.com/s/wnvcoyv99v33qtg/1976-NBC%2050th%20Anniversary%20Special%20%28Part%201-Restored%29.mp4?dl=0
www.dropbox.com/s/6blicnlrbg46vq7/1976-NBC%2050th%20Anniversary%20Special%20%28Part%202-Restored%29.mp4?dl=0
@@epaddonhow about in 2026 when nbc turns 💯
he wanted to call nbc something close to pbs
so snl would be for viewers like you .
Groucho Marx!
NBC 29 1:59
The presentation was so awful. It was so dry.
I was 5 mos. old when this was broadcast. Winnipeg, Canada was still 2 yrs. away before it got hooked up for cable-tv.
Interesting. I'm exactly 4 months older than you. But, I enjoyed this for the exact reason you did not. I find the "dryness" kind of refreshing compared with today's mile a minute presentations.
@@johnp4008 Bland is better?
@@sillygoose635 Bland is your word to describe it not mine. If I think something is well done & interesting, that would make it the opposite of "bland"...this video is calm and straightforward, not bland, and that's a nice contrast to the ultra-slick overly-produced stuff we have today. In my opinion.
Imagine criticizing a 50 year old program, probably the first of it's kind, as if they didn't do better things later on.