Bobby Ellerbee’s “Eyes of a Generation” project is one of the most important resources for American television history. His genuine love for television, combined with all his experience and connections, has brought us an indispensable resource for digging into the medium’s history.
You can’t talk about the Liberty Bell without talking about the American Revolution, and vice versa. They are woven into the same fabric. This site about TV cameras is really about the history of television and the society it portrayed. The site doesn’t just show you cameras; it shows you what they captured and how […]
Eyes of a Generation lives up to its name – and then some. I’ve been in professional broadcasting since 1965, when I spent the first of two summers as a Vacation Relief audio editor at NBC Radio in New York. That was many years after visiting as many TV and Radio studios as possible along with […]
I spent 46 years producing and directing news for NBC. I started in the “gee whiz” days, when we were dealing with the constantly changing technology and thinking “gee whiz, look what we can do now”. I came to NBC News in 1961 when President Kennedy came to office, and I directed the pool television […]
From Philo Farnsworth’s first breakthroughs to today, thousands of people helped shape American television — yet much of that history, like so much programming, has been erased or forgotten. One person, Bobby Ellerbee, has spent years gathering, documenting, and preserving the details of those innovations, creating the only comprehensive resource that captures the true […]