You won’t believe the paint job on these 1947 French cameras! The build is pretty interesting too! Notice that the viewfinder is built into the pedestal column. Thanks to Brock Whaley in Ireland for sending this.
NBC’s Color Girl Last week we touched on the color camera development at The Colonial Theater in NYC, but before that, there was experimental color testing from Studio 3H at 30 Rock with the experimental ‘coffin’ cameras. There was experimental color from the Washington DC Windham Hotel studios, but no “color girl”. Marie was hired in […]
Unfortunately, there are none of these cameras left. The few that were ever made are long gone. This is the second model of GE’s color cameras from around 1965. This, like the it’s predecessor, the PC 15 was a three tube Image Orthicon camera based on the RCA TK41. These weighed in at “only” 220 […]
UPDATE 2021: Unfortunately the original video of the studio tour is gone, BUT…in it’s place is a fun bit Seth did with now retired NBC veteran Bob Friend, so take a look and laugh along with our friend Bob, the man who kept NBC Studio 8G alive and well for many, many years! In Studio […]
Ampex 300 ENG Camera This was a small monochrome camera which was used in “ENG” mode with a very large 2 inch quadruplex video recorder VR3000. This debuted around 1967 and was just in time for use at the US political conventions for floor coverage. Source