You won’t believe the paint job on these 1947 French cameras! The build is pretty interesting too! Notice that the viewfinder is built into the pedestal column. Thanks to Brock Whaley in Ireland for sending this.
AS RARE AS IT GETS! The State Of Color 1966…ABC, CBS, NBC Copy And Save This Link! This is the most detailed and in depth report on the start of colorizing that you will ever see. These four pages from a Broadcasting Magazine special report from January 1966 lay out exactly who had what, where! […]
It’s not every day you come across a TV pioneer like Frank Merklein, or a family like Frank’s! There are two stories here. One is Frank’s incredible history in television, and we’ll get to that…but first, I want to introduce you to what could be one of TV’s only three-generation families. To make my point, […]
TeleTales #74…Rare Video NBC Burbank Studio 1, Bob Hope Special This is the opening of a 1963 “Bob Hope Chrysler Special”. As you will see, it was shot with RCA TK60 black and white cameras in the usually color, Studio 1. When you see the TK60, notice the TK41 color camera behind it. Hope was […]
KTLA…Covering The Rose Parade Since 1947 Covering the Rose Parade has been a great KTLA tradition that continues today. Bill Welsh and Dick Lane announced the first telecast in 1947. In 1953, before videotape made such things easy, KTLA found a way to air the parade twice. They televised the parade once at the beginning […]