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Originally Posted by vinljnkie
I have a copy of the Fred Astaire special on DVD, it's called An Evening with Fred Astaire. The show is posted on you tube in 6 parts. It was historic as being the first edited color show broadcast from color video tape. They physically had to cut and splice the tape to edit it. Any other shows broadcast from color tape previous to this show were taped as live. Here is the link to segment 1 of this show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSSCFuJTX1c A link to a wikipedia article about the show http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_even...h_fred_astaire |
Actually, "An Evening with Fred Astaire" was initially broadcast live to the East Coast, and the telecast was replayed via color tape for the West Coast, three hours later. There was no editing to that program.
It is **possible** that parts were pre-taped and then "played-in" to the show during the hour (most likely, the Chrysler/Plymouth commercials), but that hasn't been verified.
The 2nd and 3rd Astaire specials ("Another Evening with Fred Astaire" and "Astaire Time") were pre-taped, however.
- Kevin