Sid Caesar launched Your Show of Shows 50 years ago, at the dawn of television, when everything was broadcast live. Along the way, Caesar and his writers - including Mel Brooks and Woody Allen - literally invented TV sketch comedy. The fragile record of these shows are kinescopes, 16-mm films created by training a camera on the TV screen during the broadcast. Caesar saved some 400 hours of these reels, and last year Rich Tackenberg and Scott Zakarin (creators of the first Web soap, The Spot) learned of the stash. This spring, the two founders of Creative Light Entertainment, along with partner Peter Jaysen, released Caesar's early shows on video and DVD (available at www.sidvid.com). "I'm new to the Net," says Caesar. "But people who are pioneers tend to gravitate toward each other."
ELECTRIC WORD
Rock of Ages
Fire Works
Sideography
Sole Caliber
The Big Picture
Groove Tube
