Below this 1953 SMPTE article written by Karl Freund is a copy of his biography…
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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"…
January 6, 1952…First Ever “TODAY” Promo
First Ever "TODAY" Promo, Live With Fred Allen & Dave Garroway In preparation for a…
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…
NBC/RCA First All Electronic Television Broadcast…July 7, 1936 + My Curated Video Tour
The First All Electronic Television Broadcast by RCA & NBC, July 7, 1936 +…
The First 50 Years of Broadcasting
Going back to 1931, the names Farnsworth and Zworykin ring out as the editors of …
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…
Video Tape…Images With Impact
This 23 minute presentation is a fine historical tutorial on early videotape editing, all the…
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…
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…
‘Hour Glass’…A Television First
This show was network television's first rehearsed, non-reality program. It was a one hour variety/sketch…
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…
CBS Broadcast Center…1964 Introduction Book
This 60 page book was presented at the 1964 NAB Convention to introduce the new…
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…