One of the leaders of Bell Labs had an idea of how to show the black and white movies of those days in color. This idea seems to be a lot like what we finally got in electronic color TV, with the use of mirrors and color filters.
Ed Reitan’s Color Television History KTLA’s 1955 Colorcast of The Tournament of Roses Parade (clipping of Variety Review)CBS Color Television System Programming (1951) (added licensed Time-Life photo) CBS Color Television System Chronology – a “Magnum Opus” RCA Models using the CTC-10 Chassis has been added to the Receiver Gallery The Color Pioneers – Local Stations with Early Live […]
The day before the riotous Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago, NBC broadcast color images from the convention floor, using these new cameras. Although not a product of the RCA Broadcast Electronics Division, this portable color mini camera, as it turns out, was developed by RCA’s Astro Electronics Division. The Astro Electronics Division of RCA […]
THE RCA TK30 ERA: About the only way I could think of to present these 120+ images from one of television’s most storied shows, is to break the batches down based on the cameras in use. At the time this multi-decade epic began in 1948, the show was called TOAST OF THE TOWN and was […]
A look at how NBC’s radio studios at 711 Fifth Avenue were designed and constructed. Before the move to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in 1933, NBC’s called 711 Fifth Avenue home for five years, although they had custom built this location only 5 years before. While still crowded into their first office and studio location at […]