Remembering The VCR…RIP, The End Is Near
The last VCR will be manufactured this month
R.I.P., VCR. Funai Electric, the world’s last known VCR manufacturer, will cease production of video-cassette recorders this month.
Just Amazing! A Parade Of 50 Years Of CBS Stars! Part 2 It is extremely rare to see the founder and chairman of CBS on television, but here is William S. Paley along with Walter Cronkite closing the week’s festivities with about a hundred of America’s best known faces. The long pan of stars at […]
WBKB, Chicago Camera Mystery #1 The photo on the left was sent by Gary Walters who wanted to know what kind of camera this is. The picture (and the others) are from Chicago’s WBKB around 1943. My first thought was…this is a very early Dumont mounted on a barber chair base. The more I looked […]
Ultra Rare! CBS Studio 43 And 44 (Grand Central) Spec Sheets Yesterday, I showed you Studio 41 and tomorrow, we’ll see Studio 42. Today we are going to look at “Studio” 43 and 44 which are actually control rooms. This has caused some confusion over the years as the Grand Central location has always been […]
Beatles 50th Sullivan Anniversary Count Down…10 Days Up close and personal! Looking at how close the crane is in these shots is an interesting reminder that the Studio 50 stage is only 29 feet deep and 37 feet across with a very shallow stage right. There was a 10 foot crane ramp, but without the […]