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The One And Only of the One And Only

  • October 31, 2012

The One And Only of the One And Only This is the one and only photo, of the one and only RCA TK42/43 at NBC. RCA engineer Harry Wright gave me this photo of the camera RCA took to 30 Rockefeller Plaza. NBC never bought a 42 or 43. This camera was put in the […]

Early Marconi Color Testing

  • August 24, 2013

Early Marconi Color Testing I suspect this experimental color camera is from around 1954. It is the predecessor to Marconi’s BD 848 which appeared around 1957 and was built along the lines of the RCA TK41. Around 1947 Marconi entered an agreement with RCA to build modified versions of the TK 30 which became the […]

CBS Studio 42 At Grand Central Terminal, 1950

  • January 5, 2015

Picture Parade #4…CBS Studio 42 At Grand Central Terminal, 1950 This is Faye Emerson on her fifteen minute daily show the CBS Network. In 1947, CBS bought the RCA TK10s and 30s for their studios. These are TK30s with the exclusive CBS striped band on the viewfinder. Do you know why they were there? Here’s […]

First Airborne Color

  • January 19, 2014

First Airborne Color and First Live Use Of Color Video Tape There are several elements to this story, so let’s start with the mystery of the camera itself. Yesterday our friend Lytle Hoover, of RCA’s Broadcast Division in Camden, sent the photo on the left to several television camera collectors. We were trying to identify […]