Surprise Discovery! Sam Donaldson…Cub Reporter, 1967
At 11:05 you’ll see WTOP TV shooting film then picking up the story in the studio with a very young Sam Donaldson on the set with an RCA TK41. You’ll even see him in the viewfinder! Sam’s part actually starts at 10:27 and he is back with the TK41 at 13:15. Enjoy!
March 1, 1988…It Was “Camera Night” On The Letterman Show Just for fun, here is NBC Studio 6A packed with 13 cameras, mostly RCA TK47s, plus a few had helds. When announcer Bill Wendell called it “Camera Night” in the intro, he wasn’t kidding! This was about the half way point in Dave’s NBC run […]
January 10, 1949…RCA Introduces The 45 RPM Record I was 8 when I got my first record player, and the first two 45s I ever had were Bobby Day’s “Rock’n Robbin” and Andy Griffith’s “What It Was, Was Football”. Do you remember your first 45s? Here is Charles Osgood’s story on the debut from last […]
Marconi Mark VII Color This is from a 1975 tennis match near Boston. It’s the only time I’ve ever seen a Mark VII with a lens other than it’s regular Angenieux lens compliment. These were great cameras and I’m glad to have one on display. Mine spent most of it’s days on Sesame Street. Source
Here are two very interesting articles with great pictures to show what it took to make people look ‘normal’ in the early years. Wow!