Frame Sizes With Fixed Focal Length Lenses…
In the days before Zoom lenses, cameras had rotatable turrets which usually held four fixed length lenses. Here is a scene that shows the difference between the frame sizes each lens gave.
In those early days, cameraman and technical directors would go over the lenses needed for a production on each camera. Part of the set up process was manually adjusting the F stops on each lens. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
Without The Cameras, It Would’ve Been A Radio Show… Below are a couple of shots of my Marconi Mark IV camera. It is one of only four known to exist in the US. Less than a dozen exist world wide. The night The Beatles performed for the first time in the US, six of these […]
A Story Of TV History Treasure…LOST For a year and a half, on what was then WRCA, Bill Cullen hosted a local (New York) fifteen minute television show called “Inside NBC”. Here is a description of just a few of the shows. It would be fantastic to see all of this backstage stuff, BUT…sadly, as […]
In this piece, you’ll see television history in the making that starts in 1949 and continues into the present. Now standing safely in Boston is one of the first two color cameras ever delivered to a local station: WKY-TV in Oklahoma City. The Black and White Years / The Color Years / The Rescue of […]
1960s NBC Color Promo This is a :60 second promo for NBC color programs shot at the “Perry Como Show” at the Ziegfeld Theater that shows the lighting director hard at work with a TK41 set to shoot soon. Source