1955: NBC Burbank Color

On July 30, 2012 - TV History

1955: NBC Burbank

This is the control console for an RCA TK41. The camera control unit is on the left and the colorplexer on the right with the double rows of red, blue and green knobs. You need one of these consoles for each TK41. So many knobs, so little time.

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6 Comments

  1. Al Killion July 30, 2012

    Actually, the panel on the right was for a TK 40. When they came out with the 41, the controls were placed below the monitor and in the desk area.

  2. Craig Ian Lester July 30, 2012

    Being a shader has only become harder. Having done vision control for 20 years, I can only say that the number of cameras on a production have grown exponentially with VTs, but shaders nowadays have 3,4,5 or even 6 cameras to shader! I am of course talking about outside broadcast.

  3. Warner W. Johnston July 30, 2012

    Notice also they are using home consoles for the color monitors.

  4. John Wagner July 30, 2012

    Do any of them go to 11? Awesome photo!

  5. Chris Clementson July 30, 2012

    Where were the registration controls on a 40/41? Were they in the camera head or remote? Why would an NTSC encoder require all those RGB knobs?

  6. Warner W. Johnston July 30, 2012

    The thing on the far left is a drop in RCA BW pix monitor and A scope. They were used in far more than just camera chains. I thought at first that the scope on top was a vector scope, but it seems to also be displaying a wave form.