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!
A while back, my friend John Bolin came from California to see my camera collection. He brought along a few old Kodak shots of a camera he made as a boy of 13. No doubt it’s a TK30 mock up, complete with toilet paper rolls for lenses and Christmas tree lights for tally lights. You […]
For those of us interested in the technical side of broadcast history, this comes as a surprise. Pictured here are two shots from the set of the November 1960 Presidential Election coverage, in which John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon. This was at the CBS Grand Central location, where, for this occasion Studio 41 and […]
Here you’ll see everything from the TK60s and 41s to lenses, pedestals, heads, cranes, lights, control room and telecine gear and more…it’s the whole magilla. In case you have never visited David Gleason’s American Radio History site, you should! He has almost every broadcast publication ever printed and it’s all readable and searchable. A fantastic […]
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 […]