stevea
11-02-2025, 08:40 PM
I happened upon this rarity on Youtube - an originally live, color presentation of the Tonight Show. The remote feed from Times Square still used black and white cameras. But the color videotape presentation from that time is, again, a rarity.
There is very little footage from his 1962 debut (which, other than some still photos, itself is lost) to mid-1972 left. Per Wikipedia there are 33 complete episodes intact, and most of them are probably black and white film kinescopes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Du8lLUkpHE
There is very little footage from his 1962 debut (which, other than some still photos, itself is lost) to mid-1972 left. Per Wikipedia there are 33 complete episodes intact, and most of them are probably black and white film kinescopes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Du8lLUkpHE