The First Hand Held Broadcast Camera

On January 13, 2013 - TV History

The First Hand Held Broadcast Camera

This is the RCA ‘Walkie Lookie’ miniature wireless Vidicon camera designed for coverage of the 1952 Political Conventions. With so much attention to the Ikegami ‘Handy Lookie’ in the posts below, I just wanted to remind you who was actually first with this technology. RCA and the USA!

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7 Comments

  1. Jay Ballard May 17, 2017

    I believe that is RCA Engineer Jack Castlebury (sp?) with the camera. Many people in the industry attended Jack’s equipment seminars in Camden

  2. Mark Shelton Westmore January 13, 2013

    GO USA!!!

  3. Alex Paramo January 13, 2013

    of corse!!

  4. Maureen Stamm January 13, 2013

    At the 1976 Conventions, I think, we had visitors from Sony Japan, looking over our handheld minis. At the next Convention, the Sony minis were all over the place. Go figure.

  5. Jose Rojas January 13, 2013

    It might be too heavy after an hour carrying that “back-bag”!?

  6. Rick Zach January 13, 2013

    Notice the “Schenectady Teal” color. All products from Schenectady had that same color. When their land mobile division moved to Lynchburg, the products went to “Lynchburg Grey-Blue”.

  7. Todd Palladino January 13, 2013

    Too bad the US isn’t producing them today.