With many thanks to The University of Indiana Libraries Moving Image Archive, we are very…
Category: Studios
RCA’S FIRST ICONOSCOPE CAMERAS & THE PROTOTYPE
We will see three different Iconoscope cameras here...the first three all electronic cameras made by…
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…
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"…
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 +…
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…
Studio 8H and the Chapman crane
Among the very few things that have not changed since Saturday Night Live debuted in…
1931: Tour Of CBS Experimental TV Studio, W2XAB New York
Complete with pictures and drawings, this 1931 article from Science and Mechanics takes us on…
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…
CBS Broadcast Center…1964 Introduction Book
This 60 page book was presented at the 1964 NAB Convention to introduce the new…
April 14, 1956…Videotape Recording Debuts; Ampex VR-1000 Unveiled
On April 14,1956, this prototype Ampex VTR called "Mark IV" started a whole new era…
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…
April 9, 1950…First Bob Hope TV Special, NBC New Amsterdam Theater
On this day in 1950, NBC Radio star Bob Hope was lured to television…
April 6, 1948…Oldest Known Howdy Doody Kinescope Footage: Exclusive
THE ORIGINAL HOWDY PUPPET ON ONE OF THE EARLIEST SHOWS RECORDED! This kinescope is…
April 5, 1948, Chicago’s WGN Signs On…Great Vintage Pictorial
Above is a shot of my RCA TK10 from WGN...one of the original eight…
NBC Universal Orlando…New Home To My Pat Weaver RCA TK30
This week, "The Tonight Show Experience" will open at Universal Studios Orlando, with Jimmy…
March 27, 1955…NBC Burbank Dedication – Color Kickoff AND The BLUE TK41s!
It was March 27, 1955, when NBC Burbank was dedicated...two and a half years after…