1964, Republican National Convention, San Francisco

Great shot of the Marconi Mark IV in it’s suspended bucket with a couple of RCA TK11/31s on in front of the Mark Hopkins Hotel. The ABC cameras have been brought in from KPTV in Portland, OR. Back then, ABC, CBS and NBC would bring in a total of 50 or more big cameras to cover these events, even though they would pool coverage of the convention itself. NBC had a few hand helds, but it would be ’68 before the portable/backpack cameras (mostly Norelco PCP70s) started showing up.

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