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Yes, This is the GREAT June Foray! June who you say? June Foray, who passed away in 2017 at age 99, was the voice of hundreds of cartoon characters, but best known for her work as the voice of Rocky, Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick on ‘The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show‘. She’s also Granny in […]

70 Years Of Billboard Magazine…Massive Memory Lane Archive

  • January 24, 2017

70 Years Of Billboard Magazine…Massive Memory Lane Archive At this link, are full copies of every weekly Billboard Magazine from 1940 through 2010. Although from the mid ’60s on, Billboard’s main focus was records, radio and music, the late ’40s through the late ’50s issues have a good bit of television news at the start […]

The First Television News Footage? Quite Likely…

  • January 23, 2014

The First Television News Footage? Quite Likely… In 1933, the Don Lee owned experimental station in Los Angeles, W6XAO is reported to have acquired film shot the afternoon of March 10, 1933 of the Long Beach earthquake. It was almost 6PM local time when it hit, but using rapid processing film development (where the negative […]

Gray Research Telop Machine, Television’s First Optical Projection System

  • November 2, 2016

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