Remembering Noel Neill…Superman’s Lois Lane Is Gone
Actress Noel Neill, the First Lois Lane of the Screen, Dies at 95
She starred as the intrepid Daily Planet newspaper reporter in 1948 and ’50 movie serials and in TV’s ‘Adventures of Superman.’
January 14, 1952…’Today’ Debuts On NBC…First In More Than One Way Today, was network television’s first ever morning show, and is where some of the state of the art technology was first used. First, I am sure this is the first time the new Houston Fearless TD 3 counter-weighted pedestals were ever used. There are […]
Some Television Firsts In Football…Pro and College Here are some interesting firsts in the coverage of the game. The video is from ABC’s first season of what would become a juggernaut in television sports coverage…’Wide World Of Sports’. Here, in a preseason game between the Dallas Texans and the San Diego Chargers, we will see […]
The GE PC 15 Color Camera #2 This is the very rare GE PC 15 color camera on a demonstration set at WRGB in Schenectady, New York. The PC 15 came out in 1958 and was updated around 1965 and renamed the PC 25. This 3 Image Orthicon creation resembles the RCA TK41 in looks […]
Television’s Forgotten Pioneer…The Amazing Captain Bill Eddy Frankly, my head exploded this morning when I sat down to write what I thought would be an interesting piece on the revolutionary television camera that Eddy patented on this day, February 28, 1942, BUT…as it turns out, that is one of his least accomplishments! While preparing the […]