BBC Version Of RCA TK41…Marconi BD 848 Video
How Very Interesting!
Here is something very rare! At just over 2:20 in, the BBC’s version of the RCA TK40/41, the Marconi BD 848 color cameras appear on the screen. One has a viewfinder, one doesn’t but you rarely see these in action.
The whole piece is great and shows lots of ‘new’ developments like turrets, zoom lenses and more. There’s a look inside an ‘old’ Iconoscope camera and a lot of different cameras I’ve never seen before. I think the only Marconi cameras are the color cameras and the rest seem to be EMI cameras. The one with the fixed metal lenses is the EMI 10678 with ‘permanent lens hoods’. Great reference info at Brian Summers site, tvcameramuseum.org.
A Panorama programme from June 1956, with Richard Dimbleby, showing a behind the scenes view of technological advances in BBC Television. Showing the studios…
A lot of that equipment is now in display at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK. I recently visited it. It was well worth the trip. Some pictures I grabbed with my cell phone are on the http://www.chalkhillmedia.org/Museum web site. Click on the National Media Museum UK link.
I especially enjoyed seeing the guts of the TK-41 viewfinder.
Nice demonstration of those “animated captions”, and oh, how big those microwave transmission dishes were way back then.
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