December 5, 1962...'The Match Game' Pilot Taped This rare unaired video was taped in NBC's…
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“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In”…Three Backstories Rolled Into One
"Rowan & Martin's Laugh In"...Three Backstories Rolled Into One (1) Fun (2) Editing on film…
Just For Fun…Be Ready To LOL!
Just For Fun...Be Ready To LOL! I don't know if all of these clips made…
How Football’s Magic Yellow Line Technology Works…Two Videos
How Football's Magic Yellow Line Technology Works...Two Videos Here are two videos to lay out…
AT&T Book…Connecting The Continent For Radio And Television
By far, the most informative collection of information I have ever seen on early…
Welcome To The Heart Of Eyes Of A Generation!
This 100+ pages of television history is unique in all the world! This is a…
ATT Telephone TV Skyway
A brief, but informative look at the ATT effort to span the continent with…
Total Color Camera Sales, USA, 1954-1982, RCA & All Other Brands
Total Color Camera Count for USA 1954-1982 from RCA, and 1964-1981 including all major brands…
About Me…Bobby Ellerbee
As I write this in my office here at home, there is something sitting 20…
Ellerbee Classic Camera Census
This is the world's first and only count of the remaining studio size television cameras…
Gray Research Telop Machine, Television’s First Optical Projection System
Thanks to Val Ginter in NYC, here is a rare copy of the 1953 Gray…
NBC’s Former Brooklyn Studios
Blueprints of the former NBC studios in Brooklyn.
RCA Broadcast News, January 1954
"Color Television - What It Means To Broadcasters" is the tile of this issue, and…
RCA Broadcast News, April 1961
From April 1961, here is what EVERYBODY was doing with color. From networks to local…
RCA Broadcast News, October 1946
RCA introduces television's first workhorse...the TK30 Image Orthicon Camera...in a multi-page article. This was the…
STATE OF THE ART: The Studio Cameras…A Primer On Innovations
STATE OF THE ART: The Studio Cameras...A Primer On Innovations The best way to illustrate the…
“Howdy Doody” Script, 1960
Thanks to our good friend Gady Reinhold at the CBS Broadcast Center, here is one…
1935: “The House That Radio Built”
Here is the 32 page book on how NBC's headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza was…
Conan on TBS: Behind the Scene
I’m proud to share with you an exclusive look behind the scenes at Conan’s TBS…
Kid Made Cameras…Thought You Were The Only One?
A while back, my friend John Bolin came from California to see my camera collection.…
The Kennedy-Nixon Debate Innovations
Soon after the passing of CBS great Don Hewitt, I got a note from my…