The Baughman Pedestal

On July 6, 2013 - TV History

The Baughman Pedestal

This little mobile pedestal was a real work horse from the 1950s till the 80s. Originally made by Baughman, Houston Fearless copied it as did other camera support makers including ITC. There was a hydraulic version and this one, the manual crank version for height adjustment. This is my RCA TK11/31 mounted on a manual crank Baughman pedestal. They were so strong, you could even mount TK42s on them which weighed almost 300 pounds.

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4 Comments

  1. Adrian M Woods July 7, 2013

    They had these without the crank handle at QTQ Channel 9 in Brisbane Australia … I think they were RCA/HF by then …

  2. Val Ginter July 6, 2013

    Looks so scary! One time our kiddy guy bumped into a camera on a tripod dolly, and the camera fell right on the Field Zoomar. (The kiddy guy used to ride around the studio in a little gas-generated go-cart to get the kids to scream and get all hopped up before we went live.)

  3. Robert Berthel July 6, 2013

    Our boom mic looks to be the same manufacturer. ca. 1975

  4. Art Hackett July 6, 2013

    They look top heavy.