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
What Does The ‘TK’ On RCA Cameras Stand For? As most of you know, the TK prefix on RCA camera models began in 1946 with the introduction of the RCA TK30 Image Orthicon camera. Pictured below is one of the very first TK30s delivered to NBC in early June of 1946. Last night I had […]
September 21, 1963…”The Jerry Lewis Show” Debuts On ABC This is a strange tale, but you’ll love the video of Jerry riding the crane and singing. You would have thought that one of the worlds top comedians would have been a natural hit, but the show only ran 13 weeks. ABC originally had high hopes […]
50 Years Ago Tonight! The Beatles, live on ‘Ed Sullivan’ from The Deuville Hotel in Miami Beach. Thanks to Gay Linvill, here is a brand new photo…one I had never seen until today. This is the first time ever that the CBS/Ikegami hand held prototype ENG camera had been used on an entertainment show. Notice […]
WRGB: Historic In Many Ways Before the history, take a look at these GE Iconoscope cameras. As this was a GE owned property, these could actually be some of the first GE Iconoscopes they made. Over the years, GE tested a lot of equipment here. WRGB claims to be the world’s first television station. It […]