Best Photos Ever Of The Original NBC Color Mobile Units…
Best Photos Ever Of The Original NBC Color Mobile Units…
Thanks to Nicolas Auger, here is a great color photo of the first color mobile units ever. This picture was taken in Greenfield Village, Michigan near The Henry Ford Museum October 25, 1955 and NBC was there to shoot some of the museum’s activities for insert into ‘Today’ and ‘Home’, which is quite reminiscent of the 1954 Color Caravan tour.
The camera outside the school is shooting ‘Howdy Doody’ which was live from the Scottish Settlement School that day and was the third live colorcast from here. They were comparing 1855 to 1955.
The third vehicle is what I believe to be a black and white utility bus that came along with cable and scaffolding for this outdoor shoot of a recreated village from early American history. Images courtesy of The Henry Ford Museum Collection. Enjoy and share!
Those look like the 1940 trucks renovated & repainted for color. Am I right?
How about that camera? 1955. Same yr I was born. Lv u
The RCA TK-41—the workhorse of early color television. Our station in DFW, WBAP/KXAS-TV was one of the first local stations to broadcast local news and programs in color. It took the other stations in the market 9-10 years to join them!
Isn’t today the anniversary of the first coast to coast color broadcast?
Too bad one of the color trucks didn’t stay at the Ford Museum as an exhibit!
Love your work, Bobby.