OT: Johnny Carson Digitized
Alan Page
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/johnny-carsons-tonight-show-footage-hits-web/story?id=11375494
Johnny Carson: Classic 'Tonight Show' Host Turns Modern-Day Internet Star
More Than 3,000 Hours of Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show' Footage Now Viewable
Online
By SHEILA MARIKAR
Aug. 11, 2010 -
Attention, Internet: Heeeeeeere's Johnny!
Johnny Carson went off the air long before the age of YouTube and viral
video, but now, 18 years after stepping down from "The Tonight Show," he's
making a comeback online.
Carson Entertainment Group (CEG), which owns the archive of the late-night
host's 30 years on "The Tonight Show," announced today that it has digitized
all 3,300 hours of existing footage from Carson's reign and created a
searchable online database for media professionals.
While the library is only accessible to those who license clips for
professional purposes, CEG plans later this year to put out 50 full-format
shows on DVD and post a rotating group of 40 to 50 historic clips for
general consumption on JohnnyCarson.com.
"I can't believe there's so much interest after all these years, it's
wonderful," said Jeff Sotzing, president of CEG, Carson's nephew and a
former "Tonight" producer. "The show had such a large audience for such a
long time. It was such a big part of people's lives. I don't think you have
that anymore because the television viewing audience is so fragmented."
Until 1999, Carson's archive had been stored in a salt mine in Kansas. It
was impossible to view as a whole because the show had been recorded in
three different media formats. Last year, Sotzig reached out to Deluxe
Archive Solutions to transfer the footage to a digital format. Now,
producers and researchers can call up Carson clips by plugging a keyword
into the online database.
"We realized that if we could make this footage accessible in a non-linear
fashion, more people would be able to experience this material," Sotzig
said.
More than 22,000 guests sat down with Carson during his time on "The Tonight
Show," many of whom remain household names like Jerry Seinfeld, Joan Rivers,
and the late night show hosts that succeeded him, including Jay Leno and
David Letterman.
Some of Carson's celebrity exchanges are the stuff Internet memes are made
of. In 1974, Burt Reynolds walked on Carson's set to promote "The Longest
Yard" clad in a leather suit, and wielding a can of whipped cream. The fight
that ensued left Carson with whipped cream coming out of his shirt and
Reynolds with a highly suggestive stain on his pants.
The digitization process also saved some classic Carson footage that was
stuck on grainy, black and white kinescope, like Ed McMahon's 1973 Alpo
commercial where Carson crawls into position when the dog refuses his bowl.
Sotzing said that Carson, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 79, never
imagined media would be as instantly accessible as it is today. But he said
his uncle would have been thrilled by having his material make it online.
"At first, he didn't see his stuff as having much more life than what it had
on the air, but I was the one that said we need to preserve everything,"
Stozing said. "We always had discussions about how cool it would be for
technology to allow you to watch TV on your computer. So I think he'd love
this."
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Alan
~WWWWW~
What a Wonderful Web We Weave
Donz5
> Fromhttp://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/johnny-carsons-tonight-show-foota...
>
> Johnny Carson: Classic 'Tonight Show' Host Turns Modern-Day Internet Star
> More Than 3,000 Hours of Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show' Footage Now Viewable
> Online
> By SHEILA MARIKAR
> Aug. 11, 2010 -
[snip]
"Safari can’t open the page “http://www.johnnycarson.com/” because the
server where this page is located isn’t responding."
Greg Evans
I'm using Firefox and it either opens *really* slowly or times out.
I'm guessing their servers are getting hammered, hopefully it'll be
better after the initial rush subsides.
Greg
Alan Page
Donz5 wrote:
>> "Safari can’t open the page “http://www.johnnycarson.com/” because the
>> server where this page is located isn’t responding."
"Greg Evans" wrote...
> I'm using Firefox and it either opens *really* slowly or times out.
> I'm guessing their servers are getting hammered, hopefully it'll be
> better after the initial rush subsides.
I saw a tease about it at the beginning of NBC Nightly News at 3:30 PM
Pacific time, searched the Internets and found the ABC story, with nothing
coming out of NBC News until later.
I think you'll just need to wait a bit like Greg suggests.
Alan Page
"Alan Page" wrote...
> I think you'll just need to wait a bit like Greg suggests.
I got through on Google Chrome after a few tries.
"All of the Tonight Shows recorded between 1962 thru 1992 have been
catalogued and carefully preserved and are available for a variety of
licensing arrangements."
A link follows for licensing:
http://www.johnnycarson.com/clip-licensing.jsp
Carson Entertainment Group controls the licensing rights to The Tonight Show
Starring Johnny Carson. All of the Tonight Shows recorded between 1962 thru
1992 have been cataloged and carefully preserved and are available for a
variety of licensing arrangements.
CEG licenses clips from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson which have
been used in numerous television series and specials. CEG produces a series
of home video products that has set the standard for television programming
sold in retail and direct response.
Segments from The Tonight Show have been used in feature films such as
Fargo, Talk To Me, and Watchmen - as well as in commercials, including the
2008 Macy's 150th Year Anniversary ad campaign.
All clip requests will be reviewed for approval. We reserve the right to
deny a request due to the content of the footage requested or the context in
which it will be used.
When a request has been approved, the requesting party will be contacted to
quote the appropriate license fees for the rights requested and to confirm
any information necessary.
At that time a license agreement will be sent to the appropriate person for
counter-execution along with an invoice for the license fees and transfer
costs. Use our searchable database to find the episode or guest you are
looking for."
But that's probably more than you wanted...
A1...@gmail.com
Works fine here in Firefox and IE 8.
Traci
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:42:18 -0400, Greg Evans
> <not.ski...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >On 8/11/2010 7:31 PM, Donz5 wrote:
> >> On Aug 11, 6:36 pm, "Alan Page"<alp...@spamsucceed.net> wrote:
> >>> > Fromhttp://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/johnny-carsons-tonight-show-foota...
> >>> >
> >>> > Johnny Carson: Classic 'Tonight Show' Host Turns Modern-Day Internet Star
> >>> > More Than 3,000 Hours of Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show' Footage Now Viewable
> >>> > Online
> >>> > By SHEILA MARIKAR
> >>> > Aug. 11, 2010 -
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> server where this page is located isn?t responding."
> >
> >I'm using Firefox and it either opens *really* slowly or times out.
> >I'm guessing their servers are getting hammered, hopefully it'll be
> >better after the initial rush subsides.
> >
> >
> >Greg
> >
> Works fine here in Firefox and IE 8.
>
Greg Evans
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:42:18 -0400, Greg Evans
> <not.ski...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> >On 8/11/2010 7:31 PM, Donz5 wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> "Safari can’t open the page “http://www.johnnycarson.com/” because the
>>> >> server where this page is located isn’t responding."
>> >
>> >I'm using Firefox and it either opens*really* slowly or times out.
>> >I'm guessing their servers are getting hammered, hopefully it'll be
>> >better after the initial rush subsides.
>> >
>> >
>> >Greg
>> >
> Works fine here in Firefox and IE 8.
Loading just fine here in Firefox; now.
Greg
Alan Page
"Greg Evans" wrote...
>> Works fine here in Firefox and IE 8.
>> Loading just fine here in Firefox; now.
Donz is stuck with his Apple Safari...he probably has an iPhone hooked
up to ATT.
Give him a break.
brian henke
There was a clip of none other than Jay Leno from 1977! His hair
then was bigger than his chin!
Anyway, it's sad to see the once-vaunted Tonight Show franchise in
the shape that it is in right now. You wonder now if Jay had retired
or stopped doing TV, NBC had aired scripted programming at 10 instead
of Leno, and O'Brien was still hosting Tonight.
Now here are some words of wisdom from our good friend Dr. Phil:
"It scared the bejeebers out of her."
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"I love Oprah." - David Letterman
Sally
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I agree with you, Brian. I think the whole tradition of The Tonight
Show has been blighted by Jay Leno's sharklike aggressiveness. It's
hard to laugh at his jokes when we know he ripped the show away from
the next anointed successor and screwed up any notion of smooth and/or
gracious gentility.
Also love your Dr. Phil quotes. LOL.
Sally