From April 1961, here is what EVERYBODY was doing with color. From networks to local…
Category: Cameras
RCA Broadcast News, October 1946
RCA introduces television's first workhorse...the TK30 Image Orthicon Camera...in a multi-page article. This was the…
STATE OF THE ART: The Studio Cameras…A Primer On Innovations
STATE OF THE ART: The Studio Cameras...A Primer On Innovations The best way to illustrate the…
Conan on TBS: Behind the Scene
I’m proud to share with you an exclusive look behind the scenes at Conan’s TBS…
Kid Made Cameras…Thought You Were The Only One?
A while back, my friend John Bolin came from California to see my camera collection.…
The Kennedy-Nixon Debate Innovations
Soon after the passing of CBS great Don Hewitt, I got a note from my…
Today & Yesterday
Below is a shot of the Today set in the RCA Exhibition Hall on…
Where The Ed Sullivan “Beatles” Cameras Finally Wound Up…
Boy, do I wish I could have one owned one of these three Marconi Mark…
Three Generations In Television: The Merklein Family
It's not every day you come across a TV pioneer like Frank Merklein, or a…
“The NBC Inhouse Mobile Units? YEP!”
NBC was televising shows from a few of their radio studios before they were converted…
RARE! NBC Television Studio Technique, 1940
As NBC continued to refine its efforts toward commercial broadcasting's debut, here's what its staff…
NBC Television Lighting, 1940
Fabled NBC Studio 3H proved not to be only a testing ground for the new…
A 1958 Dress Rehearsal, At “The Ed Sullivan Show”
Before all the live shots below were made on a Sunday night in December…
THE NBC BUILT, ND-8G CAMERAS
UPDATED March 3, 2023: Around 2010, I found a photo of an odd looking NBC…
THE SECRET BACKSTORY OF THE RCA TK 44
Chapter One: by Bobby Ellerbee Over a period of months in 2009, I spoke…
The Virtual Archives of RCA Engineer Harry Wright
He helped design the RCA TK42, TK42XX, TK43, TK44, TK47, TK48, TK76 and more. The…
CBS Field Sequential Color Cameras at Studio 57
Below I have collected more than twenty images of the fabled CBS Field Sequential Color…
Six Decades of “Tonight”
THE TONIGHT SHOW: Six Decades of Television and Camera History A look back at more…
WSB-TV: The Early Years
Here are about 16 images from Georgia’s first TV station, WSB-TV in Atlanta, showing their…
WKY-TV: First In Local Live Color
In this piece, you'll see television history in the making that starts in 1949 and…
1932: First American Cathode Ray Televisor
From Everyday Science and Mechanics, a few quick notes on the state of mechanical and…