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GE, Second Prototype Color Test The camera closest to us, with the operator standing, is a GE color camera prototype, using the CBS developed field sequential – color wheel system that could be added to image orthicon monochrome cameras. The far camera is a regular B/W GE camera. This photo is from around 1956 or […]

A Final Goodnight…

  • January 18, 2014

A Final Goodnight… Soon Jay Leno will join this list, but for now, here are Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Johnny Carson, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rater, Peter Jennings, Bob Barker, Larry King, Mary Hart, Oprah and Regis signing off for the last time. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3MhrWM0__M From Walter Cronkite to (just recently) Regis Philbin, here is a […]

CBS FIELD SEQUENTIAL COLOR TEST…RARE IMAGES & INFO

  • September 25, 2023

What does the Orson Wells classic radio drama “War Of The Worlds” have in common with Dr Peter Goldmark’s mechanical color tests? The answer is CBS Radio Studio 1 at their first headquarters building, 485 Madison Avenue. That was where Wells and company preformed their weekly “Mercury Theater of The Air”. Around the start of […]

70 Years Of Billboard Magazine…Massive Memory Lane Archive

  • January 24, 2017

70 Years Of Billboard Magazine…Massive Memory Lane Archive At this link, are full copies of every weekly Billboard Magazine from 1940 through 2010. Although from the mid ’60s on, Billboard’s main focus was records, radio and music, the late ’40s through the late ’50s issues have a good bit of television news at the start […]