Picture Parade #2…Classic Jackie Gleason This is early afternoon, Saturday February 5, 1955. Camera blocking is still going on and CBS veteran Pat McBride is just behind Jackie. This is Studio 50, or what we now call The Ed Sullivan Theater, although Gleason was the first big show from here. This is the variety show […]
This is a short but sweet video from the Museum Of Broadcast Technology near Boston. Great look at a few of over100 cameras that are on display there in Woonsocket, R.I. Most of MBT’s cameras and 60+ VTRs will be operative. Tom Sprague, Paul Beck, Jay Ballard and Pete Fasciani have been working on this […]
A Rare Sighting…The GE PC 25 Color Camera There were not many of these cameras made and I think the total ever built was twenty four. This shot is from WFAA in Dallas with DJ Ron Chapman hosting a local dance show. KGBT in Harlingen, Texas had them too. Although GE broadcast equipment was built […]
RCA TK30 Remote System From the 1949 RCA catalog, here’s what it took to do a two camera remote. Some don’t know that the TK30, as well as the TK10 and TK11/31 had a two part head. The bottom of the head is the camera itself and on top, the viewfinder. The TK30 field camera […]