Welcome to the Archives section. On these expanded and updated pages, you will read and hear untold stories and see unique images by the hundreds dating from the earliest days of television, to the present.
The content here was not widely available to the general public and contains a lot of information that was created for internal use, or as business-to-business material from broadcasters and affiliated industries. This is also home to unique, unpublished information contributed by authors, and a good example is the great AT&T Book…Connecting The Continent For Radio And Television by our friend Mark Durenberger and others.
Some of the other exclusive features of this page include my Total Color Camera Sales In The US, The Ellerbee Classic Camera Census, and First Person, An Oral History of Broadcast Television. Hundreds of new entries on a variety of television topics have been added, with more to come. -Bobby Ellerbee
Above, “Tonight” show in NBC Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Plaza circa 1963.
Ever See The Gemini System In Action?
The First ‘I Love Lucy’ Episode Filmed…With Schedule
Directing Football…1939 Till Now! GREAT DGA ARTICLE!
The NBC Color Caravan Story…June 9 – August 11, 1954
Introduction Of The Auricon Pro 1200
ABC’s Sacrificial Lambs…GE PC 7 Made Into First ABC Mini Cam
The Most Awesome “Ballet” In All Of Television! SLN Timelapse
Videotape Ground Zero…A First Hand Account From Fred Pfost
Here’s A Rare Sight & Great DGA Article…’I Love Lucy’
Confirmation! CBS Buys Marconi Color Cameras…October 31, 1966
June 19, 1946…The debut of the RCA TK30s…
Television’s First Sportscaster…Bill Stern
A Brief History Of Portable Color Cameras
1953 Charlie Douglas’s “Laff Box” Discovered
April 11, 1956…Ampex Debuts Video Tape At NAB
When Jack Paar Walked OUT, Here’s Where He Walked IN…
“NBC Studio 1H”…Hurely’s Bar
The Amazing Life Of Eddie Brinkmann…Sullivan Stage Manager
The First Camera Dolly, 1936
