Radio Age - 1955, April - 36 Pages, 2.8 MB, .PDF - VacuumTubeEra

as present knowledge makes possible and to anticipate
future needs.''
With the opening of the new center in Burbank,
NBC's inventory of color telecast facilities now includes
five separate originating points for color, as well as
special equipment for televising color film.
These facilities include:
The NBC Brooklyn studio — The world's largest
television studio. Formerly a Warner Brothers motion
picture sound stage, the Brooklyn installation was altered
and equipped at a cost of $3,500,000 and dedicated in
September, 1954, as a home for NBC's color spectaculars
and other major color productions. The memorable
color telecast of "Peter Pan" originated here.
The Colonial Theatre, New York — The world's
first fully equipped studio for compatible color. Most
of NBC's major shows were staged before color cameras
here on a rotating basis during the 1953-54 season. The
Colonial can handle productions of any size and has
alternated with the Brooklyn studio in the handling of
the 90-minute spectaculars.
Studio 3-H, Radio City. New York — Used for
smaller productions, commercials, and for research in
staging, lighting, costuming and makeup.
The NBC Color Mobile Unit — The only unit of its
kind in existence, this has been used by NBC to cover
festivals, sports events, natural wonders and national
shrines in various parts of the country. With its own
built-in generator and radio relay, the mobile unit can
range far from network and power lines to provide
color television coverage almost anywhere in the United
States.
Color City's cameras focus on an attractive pattern.
This shows the control room at the Burbank studio.
NBC Creates TV Industry s First
Children's Program Review Group
Creation by the National Broadcasting Company of
the television industry's first Children's Program Review
Committee was announced on April 7 by Joseph V.
Heffernan, NBC Financial Vice-President. At the same
time, Mr. Heffernan announced appointment of Dr.
Frances Horwich, producer-star of NBC-TV's awardwinning
"Ding Dong School," to the new post of Supervisor
of Children's Programs for NBC.
Testifying in Washington, D. C, before the Senate
Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, Mr. Heffernan
said that the new committee will consist of Dr. Horwich,
Mrs. Douglas Horton, former president of Wellesley
College and war-time director of the WAVES, and
Dr. Robert F. Goldenson, a psychologist and expert on
family relations.
Color City's elaborate lighting switchboard.
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