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This is a Emmy from the "Academy of Television Arts and Sciences"... Winning bidder receives the Emmy with the original photo of the winners. My father Chuck Meyer (Far left in photo) received this Emmy Award in 1962 for his editing talent...The show he edited was called the Mikado...9/11/62 The show was edited on a 2" tape machine (VTR) by splicing the video together using a razor blade and tape.Chuck Meyer also built the first Minicam truck and did the first Minicam LIVE shot with Bill Kurtis in Chicago for WBBM TV Channel 2 Television documented the event on film that convinced New York CBS Inc. that this was the new future of Newsgathering, offering the viewer a new medium w the anchor on the news set could communicate with reporters in the field and interview people LIVE at the story.. Chuck Meyer was also involved in the Nixon Kennedy Debates at WBBM...And was also instrumental in developing new additions to the first portable Minicams (The Ikegami HL series to make them more user friendly/operator) He later became the Minicam supervisor at WBBM as well as KNXT/KCBS Channel 2 Los Angeles.This award and photo are a piece of television history.Also in the photo with my father is...Lee Phillip Bell is a former talk show host and soap opera creator.Lee Phillip Bell is one of the most notable graduates from what is now known as Riverside-Brookfield High School in Riverside, Illinois. Ms. Bell received a degree in microbiology from Northwestern University. While she worked part time in her family floral shop she accompanied her brother to the local television station w he worked on a local talk show demonstrating flower arrangement. After a time she took over this job from him and pursued other positions at the station (WBBM-TV Chicago) before being given her own show The Lee Phillip Show. This show is notable in that it was the first to show an on air self breast examination. She was a popular host and received 16 local Emmy Awards, her show ran from 1952 to 1986.She married William J. Bell in 1954, which lasted until his death in 2005. During the early days of their marriage he was writing soap operas like Guiding Light, As the World Turns and Another World with Irna Phillips. Lee would learn about important issue via her television show and pass them along to her husband who in turn weaved them into his storylines.Along with her husband she co-created the popular CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless in 1973 and its sister show The Bold and the Beautiful in 1987. She also served as executive producer of The Bold and the Beautiful in the 1980s. She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1975 for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series for Y&R.In 1977 she was the first woman to receive the Governor's Award from the Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.She is the mother of William J. Bell, Jr., Lauralee Bell and Bradley Bell who are all involved in her soap operas and has 6 grandchildren. Her brother Russ Phillips is the owner of Phillips Flowers & Gifts, one of Chicago's premiere florists.She and her husband lived in a house formerly owned by aviation mogul Howard Hughes and also Cary Grant.In 2007 Bell was awarded a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement for her contributions to daytime television. FYI,,,Thus EMMY is missing the ATOM BALL THAT GOES INTO THE RING ABOVE HER ARMS...The winning bidder has the option at their own expense to create a new atomic ball...A new atomic ball can possibly be made by a jeweler and inserted into the ring...Sorry, it was lost during a move to California...THIS EMMY IS BEING SOLD IN AS IN CONDITION. Spec.s... Base is 5 1/2"in length...1" high at the back and 3" wide... Total height is 5" 1/2" from top of base The Emmy Award is an American television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and are considered the TV equivalent of the Oscars. Three related but separate organizations present Emmy Awards: * the Academy of Television Arts... read more

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