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Ponderosa Ranch: 1,000 square-miles/600,000 acres Episodes Made: 430 Number Of Color Hours: 430 Number Of Stories: 428 (including 2-two part episodes) Running time: 48 minutes Choral Music and Cue Music: 25 minutes of choral (effects) music scored 5 days a week, during the filming season. In addition, miscellaneous cue music themes would be recorded at the start of the filming season for no more than one week per season. Film Lab: Consolidated Film Industries, Hollywood, Ca. Studios Used: Paramount Studios: Stages 16 and 17, one street (Western Street, 1959-1970) Dimensions of Stage 16: 170 feet long by 104 wide and 40 feet high Dimensions of Stage 17: 186 feet long by 67 feet wide and 35 feet high Warner Brothers Studios: Stages 19 and 25 One street and backlot used from 1970 to 1972 Dimensions of Stage 19: 160 long by 135 feet wide and 35 feet high Dimensions of Stage 25: 160 feet long by 135 wide and 35 feet high Backdrops Used: Ponderosa Ranch on Stage 16: Height: 30 feet tall Length: 200 feet long For other story settings, backdrops would be constructed in various sizes and sewn together for filming on Stage 16. Other sizes would be made for the Ponderosa and Virginia City sets on Stage 17. Production Costs Per Season: $110,052 (1959), $211,530 (1969), $225,000 (1972). With added RCA sponsorship, $250,000 per episode. Costumes and Wardrobe by: Cast wardrobe made by Paramount Studios and other costumes by Western Costume Company, Hollywood, California. Sponsors: RCA (1959-1961) General Motors (1961-1972) Ford Motors (1972) Lucky Strikes Eastman Kodak Hall's Mentho-Lyptus Chun-King Coffee-Mate Little Friskies Efferdent Polident TV Guide Rhys Lather Pearl Drops Playtex Living Bra Sinex Goodrich P & C Markets (local) Foreign Markets: 89 in 1969/30 in 2000 Owner and Developer: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. Original television syndication by: NBC Television (May-August 1972) Current owner of Bonanza film library: CBS DVD (a CBS Corporation) Languages: 12 (in markets where it's not dubbed, and a national language other than English, subtitles are used) Number Of Crew: 34 NBC Staff: 7 Fenton Coe: director, film production Alan W. Livingston: vice president, film TV programs, West Coast Tom Sarnoff: vice president, production and business affairs Fred Hamilton: director of film programs Robert F. Lewine: vice president, TV network programs David Levy, vice president, TV network programs and talent Jerry Stanley, manager of film programs Merchandise Manufactures: 25 (1969) Shooting Schedule: 6 days Number of Emmy Nominations: 10 Number of Emmy Awards: 3 1962~ Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Walter H. Castle, A.S.C. Haskell Boggs, A.S.C. 1963~ Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic Design Hal Pereira~ Art Director Earl Hedrick~ Scenic Design 1965~ Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment Haskell Boggs, A.S.C. William F. Whitley, A.S.C. Edward Ancona~ Color Consultant (Emmy Award) 1966~ Individual Achievements in Cinematography Haskell Boggs, A.S.C. William F. Whitley, A.S.C. 1966~ Individual Achievements in Film Editing Marvin Coil, A.C.E. Everett Douglas, A.C.E. Ellsworth Hoagland, A.C.E. (all won Emmy Awards for best editing) 1966~ Individual Achievements in Music David Rose~ Conductor and Composer 1966~ Outstanding Dramatic Series David Dortort~ Producer (lost to The Fugitive) 1967~ Individual Achievement in Cinematography Haskell Boggs, A.S.C. William F. Whitley, A.S.C. 1971~ Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Ted Voightlander, A.S.C. (episode "The Love Child") 1971~ Outstanding Achievement in Musical Composition David Rose~ Conductor and Composer (Emmy Award) Below-the-line budget in 1959: $77,000, in 1969: $114,000 Script Price in 1959-60: $2,500 per hour Script Price in 1961-62: $3,000 per hour Script Price in 1962-1967: $3,000 per hour ($3,500 in season eight) Script Price In 1969-70: $4,500 per hour Michael Landon's Script Salary: $3,200 per hour Michael Landon's Directing Salary: $3,500 per hour Crew Wages: Cameraman: from $14.73 to $19.86 per hour Cableman: $3.42 to $5.24 per hour Lamp Operator: $3.28 to $5.05 per hour Grip: $3.39 to $5.20 per hour Driver: $2.94 to $4.61 per hour Key Make-up Artist: $5.57 to $8.01 per hour Prop Master: $4.43 to $6.54 per hour (figures are straight-time wages, plus fringe benefits, less governmental fringes) Color Costs: $20,000 per episode Filming Costs At Lake Tahoe and other distant locations: between $80,000 to $100,000 dollars per episode Filming at Lake Tahoe and Truckee: Season 1: July 1959 (2 days) Season 3: June 1961 (2 weeks) Season 4: June 1962 (2 weeks) Season 7: June 1965 (3 weeks) Season 9: Sept-Oct 1967 (3 weeks) Season 10: June 1968 (3 weeks) The filming at Lake Tahoe and Washoe Valley was only for a few days the first season in July of 1959. The company returned in June of 1961 for 2 weeks of location shooting for the third season of the series. By the time the seventh season began in 1965, shooting was expanded for three weeks, and subsequently for the ninth and tenth seasons of the series. The first season filming at Tahoe was for the "Henry Comstock Story", mainly in the form of stock footage with no dialogue in the filming. Just riding shots were filmed in the region. In June of 1961, season three introduced filmed segments that were shot for half of one episode over 6 days, and the next 6 days would be for another half of another episode. The local and interior shots at the studio would be filmed before or after distant location filming. The company returned again for 2 weeks of segments in June of 1962. The seventh season was expanded to 3 weeks that would cover three episodes and unlike the early years, as much as ninety to one-hundred percent could be filmed on location. The local and interior shots at the studio would be filmed before or after filming in the distant location filming. The ninth and tenth seasons were filmed in the same manner as the previous seventh season by the company. Other distant filming regions would use this same shooting schedule, so they could shoot many segments on a seasonal basis for the series. While shooting segments, the crew would film thousands of feet of stock footage to be used for run-throughs and river crossings on location and used throughout the season and subsequently re-used in later seasons to save on production values. Materials And Facilities Costs: Coffee breaks and refreshments: From $250 to $400 per episode Animals, livestock,and wranglers: $1,315 in 1959-60 $2,000 in 1969-70 Studio Rental Fees: $9,500 in 1959-60 Studio Rental Fees: $13,550 in 1969-70 (a $4,000 increase) Stables Used: Fat Jones Stables North Hollywood, California Myers and Wills Stables San Fernando, California Budget Comparison: 1959-60 versus 1969-70 1959-60....above-the-line costs: Supervision: $6,300 Cast: $18,000 Script: $4,700 Music: $5,000 Miscellaneous: $2,700 Total in 1959-60: $36,700 1969-70....above-the-line costs: Supervision: $22,900 Cast: $55,885 Script: $4,700 Music: $5,850 Miscellaneous: $5,530 Total in 1969-70: $98,005 1959-60...below-the-line costs: Production Staff: $2,154 Camera: $2,333 Extras: $1,507 Set Operator: $3,200 Scenery: $5,248 Sound: $3,924 Makeup, wardrobe, hairdresser: $2,137 Set dressing and props: $3,247 Editing: $3,691 Film and lab, titles and opticals: $19,620 General transportation: $750 Stage and studio facilities: $9,500 Locations: $4,895 Payroll fringe benefits: $4,923 Miscellaneous: $6,613 Total: $77,300 Grand Total: $114,000 1969-70...below-the-line costs: Production staff: $3,053 Camera: $5,379 Extras: $7,196 Set Operator: $6,869 Scenery: $6,276 Sound: $6,310 Makeup, wardrobe, hairdresser: $4,199 Set dressing and props: $5,722 Editing: $8,704 Film and lab, titles and opticals: $7,314 General transportation: $1,511 Stage and studio facilities in 1969-70: $13,550 Locations: $6,463 Payroll fringe benefits: $9,891 Miscellaneous: $6,614 Total: $113,530 Grand Total: $211,535 |
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