Tony Charmoli Interview
This is a Visual History Recording

Visual History with Tony Charmoli

Interviewed by: Kenny Ortega

Award-winning director and choreographer Tony Charmoli (Your Hit Parade, The Nutcracker, Gypsy in My Soul) recounts his participation in the first successful test of transmitting live motion at DuMont Studio in New York, the use of his choreography to highlight the new medium of color television, and how he brought a sense of glamour to the Emmy-winning, Mitzi...A Tribute to the American Housewife.

Tony Charmoli recounts his participation in a watershed moment for early television: the first successful test of transmitting live motion at DuMont Studio in New York City.




Charmoli's directing and choreographing talents were called upon again to highlight the potential of another technological advancement: color television.



Charmoli recounts directing Mitzi Gaynor and how he used freeze frames and split screens to bring a sense of glamour to a dream sequence in the Emmy-winning, Mitzi...A Tribute to the American Housewife.