The Race Against Time And The Ultimate Dropout…
Our friend Richard Wirth has a new article on how preservationists are reviving videotapes…at least long enough to play them through into a digital format. It is literally a “sticky business”, but thankfully there are people making the effort. Here’s a look at how they are making the old tape stock playable again.
Inside NBC…Like Few Have Ever Seen It! Yesterday, from 10:30 till 3:30, I had the tour of a lifetime! My NBC tour guides were two men that have forgotten more NBC history than most ever knew. Dennis Degan and Joel Spector lead the way as Gady Reinhold, Ron Simon and I looked and listened. Dennis […]
Classic Photo At WWL in New Orleans, a TK11 shoots the news with Jim Kincaid, Hap Glaudi and Don Westbrook in the late 1950s or early 60s. Thanks to Craig Harper for the photo. Source
John Vassos and RCA ‘Television’ If you look where Milton’s hand is, you are also seeing the hand of one of America’s first industrial designers…John Vassos. The ‘Television’ and ‘Color Television’ badges that adorn all the early RCA cameras and telecine equipment was designed by Mr. Vassos. The classic look and style of the TK40/41 […]
The Original Amateur Hour With Ted Mack: Part 2 Like many other shows that moved from radio to TV, this one was a continuation of ‘Major Bowes Amateur Hour’ which had been a radio staple from 1934 to 1945. Major Edward Bowes, the originator of the program and its master of ceremonies, left the show […]