This is one of several posters MAD artist Jack Davis did for Ampex. These were usually given out at NAB conventions in the early 70s. I have been asked many times if there are hi res versions, but not that I can find. Anyone have better images? Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
December 15, 1939…’Gone With The Wind’ Debuts In Atlanta Even now, ‘Gone With The Wind’ remains one of the biggest books ever published and one of the top movies every made. In the late 70’s, I spent a lot of time in Margret Mitchel’s Atlanta home, which back then was owned by my friend Bob […]
Fascinating Photo! The Iconoscope Tube In Action… Here is the heart of early electronic television cameras. This photo, taken by Andreas Fininger, shows an image bring projected into the lens, and then displayed on the plate of the Iconoscope tube. You can actually see the scanning beam in process. Thanks to J P Auger in […]
RARE! The NBC Color Caravan Story…June 9 – August 11, 1954 Some have heard about this, but for those that haven’t, we finally have the NBC Chimes Magazine article from August of ’54, thanks to our friend Dicky Howett in The UK. RCA and NBC were proud as peacocks with their new color abilities and […]
The cameras you see here are what RCA referred to (this first color camera design) as the Princeton Cameras, as they were designed and built at the RCA Laboratory in Princeton NJ. In the rare photo above, we see singer Gladys Swarthout, performing for the dignitaries during the color test, just before “KFO” was scheduled […]