The Surprise...Wireless Studio Cameras At Television City http://www.aerialvideo.com/technology/hd-wireless Until I verified this myself yesterday, I…
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New “Do” And A Great Crew…More On The NBC 8H Electra Crane
New "Do" And A Great Crew...More On The NBC 8H Electra Crane Yesterday you met…
Super Rare Footage…Live Television At 1939 World’s Fair
Super Rare Footage...Live Television At 1939 World's Fair After the opening days of the fair…
RCA TK30 Remote System
RCA TK30 Remote System From the 1949 RCA catalog, here's what it took to do…
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…
Orange Bowl Parade: December 31,1966
Orange Bowl Parade: December 31,1966 Thanks to David Zorning for this very interesting photo. In…
KTLA Innovation: Television’s First Videotaped Western ‘The Wrangler’
KTLA Innovation: Television's First Videotaped Western 'The Wrangler' was a six episode summer replacement series…
KTLA Innovations
KTLA Innovations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517dCXFUufQ&ab_channel=historycomestolife July 4, 1958 KTLA became the first station anywhere to broadcast live…
The Original Sketch of the RCA TK42
In case you have never seen it, here is the very first sketch of the…
The First Thomson Camera?
The First Thomson Camera? Close but no cigar...this is the second Thomson camera. Sent to…
A Total Rarity…The GE PC 15 Color Camera
This is a companion to the just posted GE PC 25 photo from Martin Perry,…
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…
Lot Of Camera History In This :30 Promo
Thanks to Martin Perry for sharing this remarkable clip. It turns out KTVT in Fort…
First Network Television Broadcast From Boston
On January 23, 1948, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM, NBC carried out what became the…
Cinema’s First Known Zoom Lens Shot…
https://youtu.be/JzUddMQczJU?t=36 In this clip, starting at 2:00, we see what is thought to be the…
AS RARE AS RARE CAN BE! Ikegami’s First Studio Color Camera(s)
These are Ikegami's First Studio Color Cameras! Above is the Ikegami TK 301, the granddaddy…
State Of The Art Mobile Television, 1963
In 1963, KPRC‑TV in Houston deployed two advanced mobile television units that were custom-built for…
The RCA TJ 48, Television’s Local Market Workhouse
If you worked in local television in the late ’40s or early ’50s, chances are…
EMI’s C.P.S. Emitron Camera: 1951
If you want to understand where British television engineering stood in the early 1950s, the…