How The Great Neumann U87 Is Made…
My favorite mic. Enjoy. -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtjHhtxmpI
Interesting little clip about how a Neumann U87 microphone is manufactured. Pretty fiddly, with a ton of hand labor – no wonder they’re so freaking expensive!
Rare! RCA TK41C Brochure For those of us that love the big silver beast, here is a link to a catalog write up from RCA in the early 60s, courtesy of our friend Steve McVoy at The Early Television Foundation and Museum. Enjoy and share! Source
This Is The ONLY TK42/43 NBC Ever Owned…Shocking But True As you know, RCA owned NBC and was the world’s leading maker of television broadcast equipment so…it’s quite a wake up call when your own network doesn’t buy your “next big thing” in color cameras. Here’s the bitter sweet back story. The RCA TK42 came […]
KTLA’S First Hit Show…’Time For Beany’ Beany and Cecil was created by animator Bob Clampett after he left Warner Bros., where he had been directing theatrical cartoon shorts. Clampett originally created the series as a puppet show called ‘Time for Beany’, which ran from February 28, 1949 to 1954 and originated at KTLA. ‘Time for […]
‘Sunset Boulevard’…Behind The Scenes Now this is funny. According to her daughter, Gloria Swanson stayed in character for the entire duration of the film…except for one hilarious break. On the day she filmed the Charlie Chaplin imitation scene, Swanson arrived on the set to find everyone there wearing a Chaplin bowler hat, and was amused […]