ABC, CBS, NBC…Tuesday Night Lineup, 1960
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What you would’ve watched on a typical Tuesday night in the fall of 1960: Bugs Bunny, Rifleman, Wyatt Earp, Stagecoach West, Alcoa Premiere (One Step Beyond)…
RCA Wireless Mini Camera: 1956 In a publicity photo for 1956 convention coverage, NBC’s Chet Huntley poses with the “Walkie-Lookie” camera, a miniature wireless vidicon camera designed for coverage of the 1952 political conventions. Source
‘Devil’s Canyon’…The First 3D Western In Movie History In the photo, we see two Technicolor cameras in a custom housing. They are facing each other to share a single lens and optical system. It would be interesting to see this thing on a dolly…I don’t know if a tripod could handle this kind of weight […]
The Granddaddy Of Color Studios…The Colonial Theater I had given up finding a photo of the theater’s face when NBC and RCA owned it, but thanks to Lytle Hoover, we finally have it. This is where the fist production models of the RCA TK40 went into service in March of 1953. The first several months, […]
TeleTales #67…The Art Of Shooting Live Drama Before videotape, there were only kinescopes, so shows had to be done live. Just take a moment and study the photo below from Television City…that’s tight in every way. The floor camera is shooting the actor on top (Edmond O’Brien), the crane is shooting the other, the boom […]