Comments on: TV’s Tiniest Actress (Sep, 1955)

By: Ben Model

Ben Model — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:47:42 +0000

Thanks for posting this article. Nice behind-the-scenes photos of “The Ernie Kovacs Rehearsal”, which is what he called his late-nite show on WABD (Dumont network, in NYC).

By: Al

Al — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:53:18 +0000

Nice job. I’ve never seen this and I pride myself on having seen EVERYTHING Kovacsian! I mention his in our lastest post on the “Ernie Kovacs Blog”:

http://erniekovacs.blogspot.co.....ovacs.html

Thanks for posting this.

Al Quagliata
http://www.erniekovacs.net
erniekovacs.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/kovacsland

By: Stannous

Stannous — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:23:23 +0000

139 clips on Google and Youtube:
http://video.google.com/videos.....sitesearch=
Some are full 30 minute episodes-

(I check Google video first anymore since it also searches Youtube)

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:41:03 +0000

Sure is, but I don’t remember seeing the miniature woman http://www.amazon.com/Best-Ern.....038;sr=1-1
It’s worth getting in any case.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:34:19 +0000

I can’t find any vids at YouTube.
I suppose there’s a DVD collection.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:23:56 +0000

I love how Kovacs followed up on this with comments to the effect that there was no miniature girl on the screen, and there was obviously some sort of problem with the viewer’s TV set!

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:37:48 +0000

I read a 1957 “Life” magazine article about Kovacs, showing how he had people “split in half” on TV. One wore black pants, the other a black shirt. In a black room, the old TV cameras simply couldn’t see the black half of the actors. Other bits he did were TV commercial parodies where the announcer reached out of the TV.

In another sketch, he wrapped a woman in white bandages, then peeled them off on camera. There was some trickery here too, because she was like the Invisible Man: there was nothing under the bandages. I forget how he did it.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:27:39 +0000

Ernie Kovaks was a pioneering genius in the television industry. First in about all the special effects we take for granted today.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:50:48 +0000

“Specification sheet!?”

I knew women were objectified in the 50′s, but wow.