CAMERAMAN KEPT FILMING MOVIE
CAMERAMAN KEPT FILMING TV

As 20th Century Fox’s vice president for non-theatrical/satellite/cable, Merklein paid $40,000 for the right to show the film on HBO, which the fledgling network did during Christmas week in 1975.

CAMERAMAN KEPT FILMING MOVIE

On its initial theatrical release, the 1975 movie bombed. Merklein says he even had a role in making “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” the cult classic that it is. Gigs followed at Time/Life Broadcast and 20th Century Fox. In the early 1960s, Merklein also worked at the Television Bureau of Advertising, a trade association that helped introduce companies to the wonders of buying ad time. And once you got that position, you had to be really good at your job because someone was trying to get your job, especially at the network level.”Įllerbee points out that NBC appointed Merklein to the National Television Committee, which in 1953 adopted a standard for color television broadcasting, making it compatible with Americans’ black-and-white receivers. “Some of the bigger color cameras were 325 pounds … “The lightest one back in the day was 120 pounds,” Ellerbee says.

CAMERAMAN KEPT FILMING TV

It comes into your house and your receiver, but the head of the snake has to begin somewhere.”Įarly TV cameras were a bear to manage. They have to be there, and through that comes the world.

If it’s not for that, you’re not going to know Jackie Gleason or Red Skelton or Carol Burnett. “It’s kind of like a vortex that connects different states of mind and places. Instead, they kept both the Bengals AND the NFL out of the loop when they made the decision to shoot the video.“There’s something about a television camera,” says Ellerbee, a former Miami radio personality (and the voice of the sheriff on Cartoon Network’s “Squidbillies”). If they were making a documentary like they said, they could have simply asked the Bengals to shoot the footage for them. If that was the sole purpose of the video, it's hard to imagine why they would need eight straight minutes of film from the Bengals sideline. Although New England admitted that the team's video crew 'inappropriately filmed the field from the press box,' the Patriots also added that 'the sole purpose of the filming was to provide an illustration of an advance scout at work on the road.' According to The Athletic, the eight-minute video shows a 'direct view' of the Bengals sideline and keeps its focus there the entire time, which seems to contradict what the Patriots said in their statement. However, people who have actually seen the video are painting a much different picture.Īccording to NFL.com, the footage shows coaches signaling on the Bengals sideline. On the Patriots' end, they're insisting that the video from the game is harmless, and that it simply shows a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to be an advance scout in the NFL, and that the footage was taken by a video crew of independent contractors who violated league policy because they simply weren't aware of NFL rules. Although the New England Patriots have admitted that they violated an NFL rule on Sunday when they illegally filmed the field during the Bengals-Browns game, one thing that's still unclear is what exactly the illegal footage shows.

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