Picture Parade 1…The Voice Of Christmas Past
Here’s a look back at some of the surprises under the tree many of us at least hoped for. I’d never seen a CBS or ABC truck till I went looking for these pictures. This internet thingy has more pictures than a Sears catalog ;>) Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Elvis Presley’s Second Television Show…’The Milton Berle Show’ In the clip above, you can see the debut of “Blue Suede Shoes” that Elvis performed from the deck of the aircraft carrier, the USS Hancock in San Diego on April 3, 1956. Below is a picture of one of four RCA TK41s there to shoot it […]
December 23, 1947…The Transistor Is Born At Bell Labs, BUT… Why did it take so long to come to television? In this story, I’ll answer that with a surprising bit of information I recently found, and also give credit where credit is due. In the top part (above the line) I’ll talk about the RCA […]
Side By Side On the left, the regular RCA TK30 monochrome camera, on the right, the CBS Field Sequential Color camera. As you can see, the color camera is a modified TK30. I’m sure that are some electronic mods, but notice the new box above the lens turret. That is the access to the red-green-blue […]
NBC 67th Street Studios Control Room In the two ‘Password’ posts just before this, we go over a lot of the history of this studio, but here is a one of a kind shot from our friend Gady Reinhold. ‘From These Roots’ was in rehearsal at the time Gady took this shot around 1959. This […]
