A Total Rarity…The GE PC 25 Color Camera
On November 2, 2013
- TV History
A Total Rarity…The GE PC 25 Color Camera
Unfortunately, there are none of these cameras left. The few that were ever made are long gone. This is the second model of GE’s color cameras from around 1965. This, like the it’s predecessor, the PC 15 was a three tube Image Orthicon camera based on the RCA TK41. These weighed in at “only” 220 pounds…the TK41 was close to 300. This rare photo from our friend Martin Perry shows Dallas DJ Ron Chapman with a local teen in 1967 at WFAA.
David, I have been told that Cooper, the chief didn’t like the look of the RCA’s but never heard they were replaced by the GE. Curtis on the mic, look there appears to be a switch under Ron’s thumb. maybe a remote start or something.
The microphone looks like that classic Electro-Voice 635A, still in production after all these years. But what’s with all that electrical tape around the mic cable?
It’s a bit of a mystery. It seems the Northpark studio had the TK-42’s at one time, and the GE’s at another. I have seen a pic or two showing the older I-O GE’s at the Young Street studios prior to their massive purchase of PE-250’s.
Yeah Craig I thought the same thing. I just recently saw another photo of the GE in the Northpark studio. I used to go watch the show through the window. I remember that the RCA’s replaced the Marconi Mark IV’s when they went to color. The GE’s must have replaced the RCA’s.
I found this from WFAA Studio 3 at Northpark. It is a TK42. I don’t know where this GE camera Martin has was located
Martin was this at Northpark? I was told those cameras were TK42’s.