Thanks to his daughter, we are proud to display a totally unique piece of television history through the eyes of her dad…the man Ed Sullivan most trusted to make him look his best, the entire run of the Ed Sullivan Show. His name is George Moses and here is the scrapbook he made.
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 […]
Complete with pictures and drawings, this 1931 article from Science and Mechanics takes us on a tour of CBS’s W2XAB facility in New York…one of the first experimental television stations in the U.S.
GE, Second Prototype Color Test The camera closest to us, with the operator standing, is a GE color camera prototype, using the CBS developed field sequential – color wheel system that could be added to image orthicon monochrome cameras. The far camera is a regular B/W GE camera. This photo is from around 1956 or […]