Picture Show (A thread for interesting photos from the world of movies and TV)*

The 1967 MAD Show Softball team, which included some notable MAD magazine fans:



L to R: Top (circled): MAD magazine production man Len Brenner, George Plimpton, MAD Show writer Stan Hart, Godfrey Cambridge, Paddy Chayefsky, Jason Robards, George C. Scott. Middle (left) Alan King, Bottom: Woody Allen, Tom Wolfe

 

Sad story. She shlepped him out to the set in that condition just so she could try and get herself a job? Disgraceful

 

Interesting read about that whole saga.

Raised Eyebrows - My Years Inside Groucho's House (Expanded Edition)
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Joy Harmon with director Stuart Rosenberg on the set of Cool Hand Luke

 

She could be Farrah's sister, at least in that shot

 

A new set now up: FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #494
Five from that bunch:

 

Leonard Nimoy arm wrestling his son - 1968

 

Minnie Pearl and Pee-wee Herman

 

Who was the Bee Gees fan--him or his son?

 

Akira Kurosawa with the cast of Rashomon

 

Annnnnnnnnd some more: FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #495
Here are five from this week's bunch:

 

Here's a great 1960 shot from the production of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho:



That's Hitchcock in the upper right (hands folded), plus actors Janet Leigh and John Gavin in bed, and a Mitchell BNC camera (with a range finder on the left side) on the far right. The fact that there's a "Revue" logo on the camera tells me they shot this at Revue Studios, part of MCA, the TV production company that owned the Universal lot starting in 1958. Revue leased the lot back to Universal Studios for a million bucks a year for a decade after that. I believe the man behind the camera is cinematographer John L. Russell.

While the film was shot in B&W and didn't require as much light, Russell still used quite a bit of light for certain scenes, like the multiple fill lights shown here on a crane:



Here's Hitch with the actors:

 

Jocelyn Brando et al, 1948

 

Or Eckelberg Glasses.............

 

Bob Hope with his family at dinner, 1947

 

FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #496 - more here!

But for now, here's a selection of five:

 

From the Archives: Marx brothers lose copyright case

Oct. 29, 1937. Chico, left, and Goucho Marx-without his painted-on mustache- wait in courthouse press room for legal action on their long-running federal case, the first prosecution brought for "borrowing" material from a previously rejected script.​

 

This "album" was a prop for the movie The Phynx (1970), about a Monkeesesque rock band.

 

And here's some great shots from the 1966-1968 ABC-TV series Batman, shot on the Fox lot in that era:




Note in this shot they have "cheated" the furniture a bit higher on apple boxes in order to do a long-angle shot and still get the background looking correct for the scene.


That is a hand-held Arriflex 35IIC camera, which was very noisy and generally used only for MOS (silent) scenes, like when they were playing back music or a fight scene that would be redubbed in post.


This looks to me like it was an exterior set shot at 40 Acres in Culver City (home to Mayberry and several other famous shows), unless it's a part of the Fox lot that was bulldozed a few years later to create Century City. Note the Mitchell BNC camera on the right has a "Bat" logo.


A rare shot of the "nuclear reactor" that powered the Batcave, where (famously) one of the villains plummets in one of the episodes. Wide-angle lenses made it look a lot bigger on TV. The paper mache rocks do not hold up well on the recent HD Blu-ray release.

[photos courtesy Terry Wilkie on the Randy West Appreciation Group on Facebook]

 

Flat screen TV and programmable recording, 1961. The original caption for this AP photo:

TV viewers of the 1970s will see their programs on sets quite different from today’s, if designs now being worked out are developed. At the Home Furnishings Market in Chicago, Ill., June 21, 1961, a thin TV screen is a feature of this design model. Another feature is an automatic timing device which would record TV programs during the viewers’ absence to be played back later. The 32x22-inch color screen is four inches thick.​

 

That would be Jill St. John who fell in the second part of first episode with The Riddler. Its how I learned the word deluded. After she fell in, Batman "poor deluded girl". Not diluted.

 

That was it -- deluded Jill St. John.

 

Here's a shot I never saw before: Jackie Gleason, circa 1958, directing one of the later Honeymooners episode for CBS TV (as a sketch for his variety show)...



This was not the earlier Honeymooners series that used the giant DuMont "Electronicam" film/video cameras. Shown is a Marconi Mark IV B&W camera in CBS Studio 50. [Pic courtesy of Alan Freedman on the Facebook At the Controls group.]