Colbert Awning Comes Down At The Home Of Truthyness…NEP Studio 54
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The Colbert Report awning comes down from it’s New York studios, signaling the end of the show – December 22, 3015
Classic Intro Here’s a cameraman at CBS Television City getting ready for the opening shot of ‘Art Linkletter’s House Party’. At show time, the red chase lights come on. The camera is the RCA TK11. Source
We will see three different Iconoscope cameras here…the first three all electronic cameras made by RCA at their Camden N.J. labs. These images are from the David Sarnoff Library Collection and are quite rare these days. The first we’ll see will be the prototype camera developed by Dr. Zworykin around 1932. The second is a […]
Rare NBC Brooklyn Studios Footage With TK41s It’s not often that we get to see the Brooklyn Studios, or the RCA TK41s in action, and this is one the only one I know of that exists. Some of the people we know are here include Don Mulvaney on the crane (red sweater) and Frank Gaeta […]
Soon after the passing of CBS great Don Hewitt, I got a note from my friend Steve Dichter with an interesting question and a photo, shown below. It’s a video capture from a 60 Minutes montage of Hewitt’s early work and introduces innovation number four, but first…innovations one, two and three. Don Hewitt was the […]