Suffice it to say that TV has come a long way, but this 4 page article from Modern Mechanics published in October of 1933 is quite interesting.
Dumont was first with this video/film hybrid system which they called the Electronicam, and it debuted just before it was used on ‘The Honeymooners’ Classic 39 film episodes in 1954. This Gemini System from UK optics company Rank (as in Rank, Taylor, Hobson) came out around 1957, and as the Broadcasting Magazine article states, would […]
For those of us interested in the technical side of broadcast history, this comes as a surprise. Pictured here are two shots from the set of the November 1960 Presidential Election coverage, in which John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon. This was at the CBS Grand Central location, where, for this occasion Studio 41 and […]
Engineering types will love this great discussion on transmission techniques. Coaxial, long wave and more is discussed here in depth in a very good article. Also, the problems from lack of standards is talked about at length.
Here is the 24 page GE PE 250 catalog, followed by the 8 page introduction of the GE PE 350 color cameras. ABC used a lot of these, and so did stations in the southeast and southwest as GE offered heavy discounts to try and get a bigger piece of the markets. Thanks to Scott […]