Network executives considered the use of film an unnecessary extravaganza. Paramount Studios negotiated with the Desilu studio facilities to utilize the Desilu "I Love Lucy" production unit facility system, their feature-film production crew in staging, filming, editing and delivering the color film musical special to CBS. renamed Desilu Studios when husband and wife comedy team Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball acquired the studio to film their CBS television series "I Love Lucy." The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz television "filmed" production unit had pioneered a number of methods, still in use in television production - filming before a live studio audience with a number of cameras this established the multiple camera filming procedure to produce, edit, and deliver their filmed show to the CBS network.
Situated adjacent to Paramount Studios is the former RKO-Pathé Film studio/stages. Bing Crosby did not want to use the CBS Hollywood Television City studio facility nor the New York Studio 72 stage. Because Crosby was uncomfortable with the exigencies of live television, performing 90 minutes non-stop in front of a television studio audience, he insisted that it be filmed. Bing Crosby (at age 51 in 1955) became the leading drive for the "High Tor" project which brought indirectly creative film talents at Paramount Studios where Crosby's Production office was situated. Paley (b.1901-1990, 89) should be noted: In the mid 1930s, Bill Paley signed and contracted Bing Crosby (at age 32) to be a regular radio performer on his daily-and-weekly CBS radio network schedule. Another factor to consider in the relationship and history between Bing Crosby (b.1904-1977, 77) and William S.
(at age 44 b.1910-2004, 94) adapted the play specifically as a made-for-television musical fantasy in early 1955, with music composed by Arthur Schwartz (at age 54) and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. During production development, Maxwell Anderson (at age 66) and John Monks Jr. Mid-1954 Bill Paley (CBS) first approached Maxwell Anderson with the intent to produce the play for his newly planned anthology series "The Ford Star Jubilee". Maxwell Anderson (at age 61 in 1949) first considered a musical adaptation of "High Tor" for television in 1949.
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