RCA TK30 Remote System From the 1949 RCA catalog, here's what it took to do…
Category: Eras
One Of A Kind Photo
One Of A Kind Photo This is the full complement of equipment associated with the…
The French Connection
The French Connection Thanks to Jorge Delendatti, our friend in France, here is another early…
Remember Watching Rootie Kazootie?
Remember Watching Rootie Kazootie? I Do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPvOQauGIsg&ab_channel=antiquelucy299 Did you know this was the first of…
The Original Beany & Cecil
The Original Beany & Cecil On the left is the voice of Beany, Daws Butler...on…
A Total Rarity…The GE PC 25 Color Camera
Unfortunately, there are none of these cameras left. The few that were ever made are…
Big Weather, July 1974…WAGA Atlanta
In the summer of 1974, before chroma key walls, virtual sets, or the sleek digital…
Ladies And Gentlemen…Meet The Voice Of Sleeping Beauty
Before she became the voice that generations would associate with Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, Mary Costa…
Huntley-Brinkley + Garroway-Blair Cover Kennedy-Nixon Election?
YES, because it is very early in the morning and the TODAY Show is starting…
Remember The Overmyer/United Network?
The Overmyer—later United—Network remains one of television’s most fascinating near‑misses. The photo shared by Maureen…
The Muppets First Big Break…The Jimmy Dean Show
This one caught me off guard too. Before the world knew the Muppets as a…
Superman’s First “Flight Through the Air”
Just for fun… here’s the moment Superman literally took to the air for the very…
‘Person To Person’ Comes For A Visit
In 1956, Edward R. Murrow’s “eyes and ears” visited Hal March on Person to Person,…
State Of The Art Mobile Television, 1963
In 1963, KPRC‑TV in Houston deployed two advanced mobile television units that were custom-built for…
EMI’s C.P.S. Emitron Camera: 1951
If you want to understand where British television engineering stood in the early 1950s, the…
Roll Credits For ’60 Minutes’
Roll Credits! This photo taken in Studio 45 shows the '60 Minutes' credit roll board…
This is the Sony BVH 500 Video Recorder
In the video, notice that the tape reels are stacked on top of each other!…
MAGNIFICENT!
MAGNIFICENT! Thanks to Glenn Mack for this fantastic photo taken during a rehearsal of 'The…
Another Rarity: TK60s At NBC Burbank
Another Rarity: TK60s At NBC Burbank Compared to others, these cameras had a short life…
‘$64,000 Question’, 1st Anniversary Show, June 7, 1956
'$64,000 Question', 1st Anniversary Show, June 7, 1956 The $64,000 Question premiered June 7, 1955…
Super Rare…’Masquerade Party’, May 22, 1955
Super Rare...'Masquerade Party', May 22, 1955 Only five episodes are known to exist of this…