Last of the Mohicans?

On March 2, 2014 - TV History

Last of the Mohicans?

Neither I, Chuck Pharis or Jim Elyea at History For Hire know of any surviving Houston Fearless 30B stage cranes left in the US. This crane was recently rescued by Cinephonics Props Hire in the UK as it was almost scrapped, along with a lot of other equipment from the BBC Television Center in London when it closed last year (see link). Outside the US, this was called the Mole Richardson crane as they were the world wide distributor. In North America, the crane was distributed by RCA and Houston Fearless. If you know of any of these great beauties lurking in a warehouse, please let us know!
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-television-centre-closes-its-doors-for-the-last-time-8555435.html


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4 Comments

  1. Kenneth McGee March 2, 2014

    Awesomeness!!!

  2. Bill Jenkin March 2, 2014

    You might be interested in this from a training video. The second half shows how it was done. The late Ron Green on the camera.http://youtu.be/rteHG-m5BwE

  3. Terry York March 2, 2014

    Work of art!

  4. Paul Lewis March 2, 2014

    Back around 1989 WMVS/WMVT PBS in Milwaukee had some sort of old crane, saw it on a visit…=:)