Director Ridley Scott’s older brother is also a
Director…Tony Scott.
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30
Nov
FIRST USE OF VIDEOTAPE ON THIS DATE IN 1956
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The first commercial use of Videotape in Television was
with the Ampex VRX-1000 video recorder, shown above.
The broadcast was Douglas Edwards with The News on
CBS. It was a telecast from New York to the TelevisionÂ
City studios of CBS in Hollywood.
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         Douglas Edwards, on the right, in the CBS- Newsroom.
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30
Nov
ROBERT ‘’BOB’’ GUILLAUME HAS TURNED 83
Robert Guillaume (center) with the cast of the
ABC-TV sitcom series SOAP which ran from
1977 to 1981.
Bob was also in the spin-off series BENSON
which also aired on ABC from 1979 to 1986.
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