The One And Only…NBC Camera Limousine
I’ve shown you this car before, but thanks to Troy Walters in Australia, here’s another look at it from a magazine of the day.
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Television Mobile Unit for 1953 Presidential Inaugural Parade
Mobile TV Unit for 1953 Inaugural Parade
On The Road To The Final Four…CBS Sports, 1985 Here’s a short but sweet look at how CBS covered NCAA basketball back in 1985. This was the era of the Thomson cameras on the sports trucks and we’ll get a good look at everything. About half way in, one of the cameramen talks about his […]
There are some TV secrets hiding in plane sight in this pristine color photo of NBC’s “Miss Color TV”, Marie McNamara. This is The Colonial Theater, NBC’s first real color studio. Notice that all four prototype cameras are mounted on prototype pan heads. This cradle head model was on the Houston Fearless drawing board, but […]
Source 🏈 The Day Television Met College Football—And Changed Forever On September 17, 1960, a seismic shift occurred in the world of sports broadcasting. The Georgia Bulldogs, led by the dynamic quarterback Fran Tarkenton, faced off against Coach Bear Bryant’s formidable Alabama Crimson Tide at Legion Field in Birmingham. But this wasn’t just another […]
Delco Parts Commercial Form NBC’s ‘Wide, Wide World’ Here’s a nice look at an RCA TK30 on a crane as this announcer uses it as a prop in this live spot for Delco. At the start of this clip is the host of the show, Dave Garroway. ‘Wide, Wide World’ began in June of 1955 […]