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1964 Bob Dylan appearance on the Steve Allen show, now thankfully in public domain status. Forgive the poor picture quality, this kinescope is from the early pre-videotape television era. For those who don't know, early television programming many times was simply shot with regular TV cameras and broadcast live, leaving no permanent copy for future showings. The only way to preserve a show was to shoot it on film . The extra expense of that was usually reserved for series programming (I Love Lucy, etc.). Generally news, game shows, variety hours, and talk shows were simply broadcast once live. Unfilmed shows exist today through kinescopes that were made at time of broadcast. A kinescope was made by aiming a motion picture film camera directly at a studio monitor, like camcording your TV screen. Networks would contract with several outside private companies whose sole business was filming shows off TV screens to create kinescope copies. Cheaper than filming a show in the studio but at the expense of picture quality. Okay, history lesson over. Enjoy this rare performance from the Steve Allen Westinghouse Show which ran late nights from 1962-1964. In the clip, Steve conducts a brief interview with a very young Bob Dylan who was just starting his career. He then introduces him to the live studio audience and Dylan performs a killer version of Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll. Trivia note: Check out the shots of the studio audience. This was when people got dressed up to go see a TV show. I think I should, for the benefit of the copyright-law-challenged and due to the ongoing Viacom fiasco, state again that the few existing kinescopes of The Steve Allen Westinghouse Show are all in public domain status. Which means they belong to everyone (the public). Enjoy the clip. Oh, and speaking of Viacom, does no one else find it incredibly odd that Viacom has a channel here on YouTube? I know that if I was Google and had just paid over 1.6 billion dollars for YouTube and another company sued me in Federal court for a billion dollars, they damn sure wouldn't be welcome to participate here. And yet they have a channel. And many of the companies Viacom owns also have channels here. WTF? What's wrong with this picture? Like politics, I guess big business also makes strange bedfellows.

Category: Entertainment
Uploaded: October 12th, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
Author: Bilkomeister

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Tags: allen bob carroll death dylan hattie kinescope lonesome show steve television tv

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