50 Years Ago, This Week…The 1964 World’s Fair Opened For some, this was the first and only time they would see, and be seen, by color television cameras. Just as RCA had made great use of it’s presence at the 1939 World’s Fair (also in New York) to introduce the public to television, their ’64 […]
November 21, 1980…Who Shot J. R.? The Big Reveal On this day in 1980, 83 million people tuned in to television’s popular primetime drama ‘Dallas’ to find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate. J.R. had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous March 21, which now stands as one […]
Philo Farnsworth, Box Camera, Model 2 Farnsworth associate, Cliff Gardner is shown here with the second ever electronic television camera. The lens is on the left side of the box and you can see the opening of the recessed lens. This was probably taken in 1930. Source
NBC cameraman Bob Batche took these photos in Studio 8H in December of 1968. Notice in three of these shots, taken during rehearsal (yes, there was a rehearsal with fake questions) the man behind the host’s lectern is not Gene Rayburn. It is our friend Dick DeBartelo, the man who wrote the questions and thousands […]