| An Evening with Fred Astaire |
Title image of the show | | Genre | Television special | | Starring | Fred Astaire
Barrie Chase | | Narrated by | Art Gilmore | | Theme music composer | Irving Berlin | | Opening theme | "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" | | Country of origin | United States | | Language(s) | English | | Production | | Producer(s) | Bud Yorkin | | Executive producer(s) | Fred Astaire | | Location | Color City, Burbank, California | | Camera setup | Multiple | | Running time | 58 minutes | | Broadcast | | Original channel | NBC | | Picture format | NTSC color | | Audio format | Monaural | | Original run | October 17, 1958 – October 17, 1958 | | Chronology | | Followed by | Another Evening with Fred Astaire (November 4, 1959)
Astaire Time (September 28, 1960)
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A television special is a television program, typically a short film or television movie intended to debut in prime time, the term used to define any television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. ...
Barrie Chase (born October 20, 1933), a dancer and actress, made four television specials as Fred Astaires young partner in the 1960s, taking the place that Ginger Rogers had held thirty years before as Astaires primary dance partner. ...
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 Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase on the cover of TV Guide the week of the special
 A sound recording of the show was released as an LP on the Chrysler Corporation label An Evening with Fred Astaire was a one-hour television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. It was highly successful, winning nine Emmy awards and spawning three further specials, and technically innovative, as it was the first major television show to be prerecorded on color videotape. It was produced at NBC's Color City studios in Burbank, California. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ...
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Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Considered something of a comeback for the then 59-year-old Astaire, the special was his first starring role on television. It was directed and co-produced by Bud Yorkin and introduced Astaire's new partner Barrie Chase, whom he would later describe in Interview magazine in 1973 as perhaps his favorite dance partner.[1] The Jonah Jones Quartet and David Rose and his Orchestra provided the music, and the Hermes Pan Dancers appeared in the ensemble dance numbers. The announcer was Art Gilmore, who at the time was the voice of the Chrysler Corporation, the show's sponsor. Typical for advertising of the era, Chrysler's 1959 model year Forward Look cars featured prominently in the show; Astaire's final words were "I only hope the show is as good as the cars." A comeback may mean: A retort, often intended as an insult. ...
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Barrie Chase (born October 20, 1933), a dancer and actress, made four television specials as Fred Astaires young partner in the 1960s, taking the place that Ginger Rogers had held thirty years before as Astaires primary dance partner. ...
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Fred Astaire and Hermes Pan working out a dance routine Hermes Pan (December 10, 1909 – September 19, 1990) was an American dancer and choreographer. ...
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The use of videotape The program was highly innovative in its use of color videotape, a technology then in its infancy. Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording television pictures and accompanying sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ...
The first major television program to be recorded on videotape had been The Edsel Show in 1957; however, this was a straight recording of a live performance with no editing. Early videotape use was confined largely to rebroadcasting programs from the east coast two hours later in the west, and was a cheaper, better-quality alternative to the film-based kinescopes. The experimental low-band quadruplex recording system in use was troublesome and hard to copy. The title image from The Edsel Show The Edsel Show was an hour-long television special broadcast live on CBS in the United States on October 13, 1957, intended to promote Ford Motor Companys new Edsel cars. ...
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Furthermore, early video editing was a highly complicated matter that required the engineer to cover the two-inch tape with iron oxide solution to locate the magnetic tracks and then splice it with a razor blade. Although it was recorded live, An Evening with Fred Astaire used a number of editing techniques that are now commonplace, such as chroma key, and dissolves between scenes recorded at different times, particularly in its opening sequence, which introduced the performers using scenes from their later performances. To simplify the process, the raw videotapes were first copied onto film kinescopes, and these were edited into a mockup of the final edit; then, the same edits were performed on the videotapes. [2] Linear video editing is the process of selecting, arranging and modifying the images and sound recorded on video tape whether captured by a video camera or recorded in a studio. ...
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Interestingly, the show was to earn a further technical Emmy in 1988 for Ed Reitan, Don Kent, and Dan Einstein, who restored the original videotape, transferring its contents to a modern format, and filling in gaps where the tape had deteriorated with kinescope footage. (The three had also restored the oldest color videotape known to exist, the dedication of WRC-TV's new studio in Washington, DC on May 21, 1958. [3]) We dont have an article called DON KENT Start this article Search for DON KENT in. ...
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The show was rebroadcast twice on NBC, on January 26, 1959, and December 20, 1964. It was thus the earliest show to be a rerun using color videotape. The later rebroadcast used a different beginning and ending that eliminated the advertising for Chrysler and removed the edits from the introduction; instead the opening and closing dances were shown uninterrupted. January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Musical numbers - "Morning Ride"/"Svengali"/"Frantic Holiday" — Fred Astaire and the Hermes Pan Dancers
- "Change Partners" — Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase
- "Baubles, Bangles & Beads" (Wright and Forrest)
- "Prop Dance" — Fred Astaire
- "Mack the Knife" — The Jonah Jones Quartet
- "Man with the Blues"/"Young Man's Lament" (David Rose)/ "Like Young" (Andre Previn) — Fred Astaire, Barrie Chase and the Hermes Pan Dancers
- "Old MacDonald on a Trip/Holiday for Strings" (David Rose) — The Hermes Pan Dancers, featuring Jimmy Huntley, Roy Fitzell, and Bert May
- "St. James Infirmary" (Primrose) — Fred Astaire, Barrie Chase, Jonah Jones, and the Hermes Pan Dancers
- "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (Ira & George Gershwin)/"Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin)/"A Fine Romance" (Kern & Fields)/"They Can't Take That Away From Me"/"Nice Work If You Can Get It"/"A Foggy Day" (Ira & George Gershwin)/"I Won't Dance" (Kern-Hammerstein-Harbach)/"Something's Gotta Give" (Mercer)/"Night and Day" (Porter)/"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" (Berlin, also the theme music for the show)[4] — Fred Astaire
- "Isn't This A Lovely Day" — Fred Astaire
The theme music of a radio or television program is a piece that is written specifically for that show and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits. ...
Sequels Astaire produced another three similar specials: November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ...
Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...
See also This is a quick reference guide to over one hundred and forty of Fred Astaires Solo and Partnered Dances compiled from his thirty-one Hollywood musical comedy films produced between 1933 and 1968, and his award-winning television special An Evening with Fred Astaire (1958). ...
The title image from The Edsel Show The Edsel Show was an hour-long television special broadcast live on CBS in the United States on October 13, 1957, intended to promote Ford Motor Companys new Edsel cars. ...
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