CBS Studio 52…A Surprise, With Studio 50 & 51 History Expanded Here is a ticket from July 14, 1949 for ‘The 54th Street Revue’ television show from Studio 52. Thanks to author and television historian David Schwartz in Los Angeles who sent this, we now have proof that Studio 52 was in television service two […]
Now This Is Interesting! Both cameras in this 1949 photo from KLEE in Houston (now KPRC) are GE models. The one on the left is the older of the two and looks almost exactly like the Dumont 124B, complete with the power supply riding on the tripod base. No one seems to know the model […]
TeleTales #33…A Stunning Piece Of Real Television History Stunning? How so? If you think back on all the years of color test broadcasts in the early 1950s, including NBC’s coast to coast colorcast of the Rose Parade on January 1, 1954, you suddenly realize that no one could see it! Well…all but a few. If […]
Picture Parade #5…’Gone With The Wind’ Technicolor Closeup Having seen one of these huge Technicolor camera blimps in the Oz photo earlier, I wanted to give you a feel for how big they really were. On the set of ‘Gone With The Wind’, here is director Victor Fleming looking into the viewfinder. Behind him is […]