RCA Wireless Mini Camera: 1956

On May 29, 2013 - TV History

RCA Wireless Mini Camera: 1956

In a publicity photo for 1956 convention coverage, NBC’s Chet Huntley poses with the “Walkie-Lookie” camera, a miniature wireless vidicon camera designed for coverage of the 1952 political conventions.

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10 Comments

  1. Greg Miller May 30, 2013

    RF exposure limits were very high back then… lol!

  2. Mickey Tee May 30, 2013

    This guy invented Live-U??

  3. Ruth Peeples May 29, 2013

    I miss that man!

  4. Ben Mccoy May 29, 2013

    i also really miss the nightly Huntley-Brinkley News Report, where REAL HARD HITTING journalism was broadcast instead of bubblegum-looking news readers who spew out miandering, unjournalistic pitter-patter in the same vein from those weekly tabloids sold at supermarkets!!!

  5. Ben Mccoy May 29, 2013

    wouldn’t ole Chet Huntley be totally bewildered by the micro-sized equipment we now have which do everything all that bulk he’s wearing once did — and more (in living colour, too)?!!

  6. Christina Clauson May 29, 2013

    The antenna has a squirrel excluder on it.

  7. Bruce Ferrell May 29, 2013

    something tells me Huntley didn’t wear that around during the convention — wonder how it would have looked on Brinkley ?

  8. Jacquie Calnan May 29, 2013

    The original one-man-band! 🙂

  9. Jarbas Jam Mesquita May 29, 2013

    I wonder the weight of the backpack and its temperature at a time when there were no small lithium batteries and transistors were still coming out of the theory. That little antenna is interesting. Totally Jetsons style

  10. Normand Latour May 29, 2013

    En costard semblable il serait parfait pour venir couvrir l’Impact sur le terrain!