We will see three different Iconoscope cameras here...the first three all electronic cameras made by…
Category: Cameras
Shooting Live TV Shows On Film By Karl Freund; “I Love Lucy” Director of Photography
Below this 1953 SMPTE article written by Karl Freund is a copy of his biography…
4 Minutes Of RCA/NBC Color With TK41s
This is part of the original 26-minute RCA presentation from 1956 that pitches color to…
Rare: Mechanical Broadcast of TV’s First Drama, The Queen’s Messenger
This is part of the first ever dramatic television broadcast called "The Queen's Messenger"…
CBS Portable Prototype In Action, 1962 Belmont Stakes & ’63 Beatles Miami
There are two videos here. The first is a great look at the first…
The BEST JOB In Live Television?
If you guessed "anything" at Saturday Night Live, you'd be 99% right, but only one…
A PRIMER ON RCA’S EARLIEST COMPATABLE COLOR CAMERAS
I've just recently been able see these stunning in-house marketing photos that reveal some news…
INSIDE NBC’S COLONIAL THEATER & RCA’S COLOR EFFORT
In all these 15 years of research, I have never found this whole black and…
December 12, 1937…America’s First Mobile Units Delivered
On December 12, 1937, the world's first electronic television remote units were delivered by RCA…
NBC Tour Book: 1939 World’s Fair…America’s View of Television
The first big push to bring television to the public's attention was mounted by RCA…
Studio 8H and the Chapman crane
Among the very few things that have not changed since Saturday Night Live debuted in…
The Birth Of The Camera Mounted Electronic Viewfinder
With all of RCA's incredible advances and discoveries in television, you would have thought that…
AMAZING CBS COLOR STUDIO 72 NYC…COLOR FILM TOUR
Here is a newly discovered piece of color television history about one of the least…
A Production Primer By Television’s First Cameraman
In a photo taken in NBC's historic Studio 3H, we see Albert Protzman, the…
Philips Norelco PC70 Catalog
From the early 1970s, here a copy the 31 page Norelco PC 70 catalog. This…
The Rarely Seen GE PE 25 Color Camera
Thanks to our friend Martin Perry, this catalog is the only piece of GE information…
October 10, 1949…The First Ever Network Color Broadcast Airs
The cameras you see here are what RCA referred to (this first color camera design)…
My Conversation with CBS VP Technology, Joe Flaherty…RARE HISTORY!
Dr. Joe Flaherty was the Senior Vice President of Technology at CBS and at the…
NBC’s Legendary Technical Director…Heino Ripp
FIRST, Don't miss this! The Television Legends Interview Series taped six half hour segments with…
Amazing New Berlin Olympics Television Information
If you are lucky, you learn something new every day, and today, we are all…
April 10, 1985…Inside CBS News Studio 33 With Dan Rather
This is a rare look inside CBS Studio 33, or what many call The Cronkite…