Happy Trails To The Great Verne Lundquist…
Verne Lundquist, whose voice has filled living rooms and bars all over the country on every fall Saturday over the last 17 years as the lead college football voice of CBS, called his final game.
We’ll miss you Uncle Verne! -Bobby Ellerbee
1936 Telefunken Camera 1 of 2 The cameraman is Walter Bruch and he’s shown here at the 1936 Berlin Olympics operating one of two Telefunken cameras at the event. As you will see in the companion photo, one of these two Telefunken cameras (Fernseh also had a camera there) has a huge lens attached. On […]
Here is the February 1965 issue of the IBEW Technical Engineer magazine that spends 14 pages on the details of the massive 175 camera coverage of the events of the January ’65 ceremonies in Washington D.C. Almost 750 people were involved in the distribution of live and recorded pictures, and, for the first time, TELSTAR […]
A Rare Look (In Color) At Early Electronic Television… This is quite an interesting look at Philo Farnsworth’s television studio and station in operation. From the technical to the theatrical side, including the wild makeup, we’ve got 10 minutes of great color film to show us how this all came together. Farnsworth and RCA, under […]
At this link are 29 classic images taken and shared by our dear friend Dennis Degan. Through the course of his television carier, he has worked as engineer and editor but is also a first rate photographer so enjoy! Be sure to notice the captions on each image when you move your mouse over the […]