Engineering types will love this great discussion on transmission techniques. Coaxial, long wave and more is discussed here in depth in a very good article. Also, the problems from lack of standards is talked about at length.
Ed Sullivan stage manager Eddie Brinkmann gives a glimpse of what you didn’t see on camera. He was the Stage Manager for Ed Sullivan from Day 1, till the end, and worked on many of the biggest CBS shows of the era.
THE ORIGINAL HOWDY PUPPET ON ONE OF THE EARLIEST SHOWS RECORDED! This kinescope is only 21 minutes long, and most likely was done as a test of the new kinescope system introduced by RCA and Kodak in September 1947. Sometime in April of 1948, the month this was shot, three new RCA TK30 cameras […]
From the Thraumatrope to the Video Walkman, the milestones are all here, in a brilliant 24 page creation from our friends at The American Museum Of The Moving Image.
Below this 1953 SMPTE article written by Karl Freund is a copy of his biography by IMBD writer John Hopwood. In the article Freund tells how he shot I Love Lucy and describes how he overcame unique new problems. Karl Freund was born in Germany in 1890; by age 15 was working as a projectionist […]