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 lower left corner.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/sets/72157600588273750/
Episode 1, Season 1, ‘The Roy Rogers Show’ This is the first ever episode of the TV classic and it aired on NBC as 6:30 (ET) Sunday night, December 30, 1951. The series ran one hundred new episodes on NBC for six seasons and ended on June 9, 1957. Beginning in 1961, CBS broadcast reruns […]
The Story Of Videotape & Editing…Part 1 (of 2) Tomorrow, we’ll see how digital editing works, but today…this is a great history of how television’s need for time shifting, and delayed broadcast for time zones encouraged the development of kinescope and videotape recording. This is well done and told in layman’s terms so everyone can […]
One That Never Made It RCA once disclosed that they had spent over $200,000,000 developing color television. I don’t doubt it…it was expensive work to do and this Tri Color Vidicon tube is proof. Here in this photo from April of 1953, Dr. Paul Weimer of RCA Labs poses with the new tube idea and […]
As I write this in my office here at home, there is something sitting 20 feet from me that kind of started this whole thing. It, to me, is the alpha and the omega in one. It, is a Marconi Mark IV camera (upper right, top). It was the first camera I ever wanted to […]