On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:58 PM, <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Awesome. I know you probably weren't at NBC at the time but did they consult you when Late Night with David Letterman did their 360 show where the entire show was in a box, presumably ADO and they did a single revolution spanned over the entire length of the show. I was working nights at the time and I seem to recall coming home around 1AM and when they came out of commercial the show was at the upside down point and I thought the damn TV was on the fritz until they mentioned it was the 360 show. Nothing like goofy TV antics to stick in my brain.
I reply:
No, they didn't consult me on that. They didn't need to consult me either. ;) But I know that it was not that simple to do. ADO could not be programmed to run an effect for 1 hour, as I recall. They must have created several effects intended to run in sequence and then edited them together, or something similar.
I remember that show quite well too. Dave was always trying to be innovative, using the medium as his own toy. He did stuff that wouldn't fly on the Tonight Show, but he could get away with these crazy things on Late Night. I remember he called a lot of stuff he did 'network time-killers'. Dave was and is the best; only Carson was better. Do you remember the 13-camera show? NBC rounded up every camera they could and brought them into 6A for a shoot-out. There were so many cameras in there, they would bump into each other. It was astounding and funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr0sel58sug
DDD
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