Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: 1939, In Color
Very nostalgic home movie footage with lots of recognizable characters.
Found 8mm footage of the 1939 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Floats and balloons featuring: Pinocchio, Donald Duck, The Tin Man, The Scarecrow, Old King Col…
November 17, 1946…TV’s 1st Magazine Style Show Debuts “Television Screen Magazine” was the show, and it may have been the second ever NBC network series, but it was certainly among the first. NBC’s “Hour Glass” variety show came first with a debut on May 9, 1946. At the time, NBC’s television network included only three […]
Want to do a program at one of NBC’s facilities? Here’s how much it would have cost you back then.
The First Two RCA Orthicon Cameras…Early Indoor Test, 1940 These photos are opaque slides from a homestyle stereoscopic viewer. I think what we are seeing here are the first two RCA Orthicon cameras being tested. Notice there is (1) no focus control anywhere. In earlier posts today, we saw both the panhandle focus and the […]
NBC Studio 6A…Before And After, Side By Side These two photos were taken from almost the same spot 18 years apart. This is Studio 6A in 1943 as a radio studio and in 1961 as a television studio. Notice that even after the break of the lighter and darker parts of the stage floor, there […]