Poetry In Motion! .RCA TK47s In Action

On September 20, 2013 - TV History


Poetry In Motion! Must See…RCA TK47s In Action

Shot by an audience member in June of 1988 at PTL Club taping, you can see the fluid movement of these 4 cameras. 2 are mounted on Vinten Tern pedestals and 2 are on Vinten Fulmars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsW4UUcH5S4

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4 Comments

  1. Craig Fisher September 20, 2013

    This is soon after Jim and Tammy were out. Too bad it was after the Chapman Crane was out of the studio. I was video Tape Engineer from 1981 – Bitter End.

  2. Bobby Reyes September 20, 2013

    …neat to watch the operators truck and boom up and down the 47’s ..never got to operate one, but I do believe that they were a bit touchy !

  3. Michael Elder September 20, 2013

    The 47’s were SO touchy! They had to be adjusted almost daily, and they weighed a ton!

  4. Mark Vidonic September 20, 2013

    I live 3 miles from where their studios were. There still is an abandoned high rise that’s been mostly empty since 1989