How Hot Is It? Pretty Hot!

On September 18, 2012 - TV History

How Hot Is It? Pretty Hot!

It’s not often that you see a TK11 opened up like this, but this one on the set of Art Linkletter’s House Party at Television City needs to breathe. Unlike cameras at the local stations, network cameras work for hours on end in rehearsals and in production and the heat from the tubes caused setting to drift and viewfinders to go blank.

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6 Comments

  1. Greg Shaffir September 19, 2012

    Bob Stone in his younger daze

  2. Richard Miller September 19, 2012

    great old photo.. kids in the video age have no idea th epioneers paved for them

  3. John Roger Bolin September 18, 2012

    Great view of the custom viewfinder hoods that they did at CBS TVC.

  4. Don Voigt September 18, 2012

    I’ve seen a lot of shots aired where it looked like the viewfinder was blank!

  5. Bobby Reyes September 18, 2012

    …nope ! ..that’s the hinged cover for the viewfinder section of the camera ..I never worked one but I know there were two sections of this camera and the top viewfinder section was detachable.

  6. David Fell September 18, 2012

    What’s that rig on the front of the camera? Some kind of prompter?