July 1970…The RCA TCR 100 Video Cart System Debuted
Some loved it, some hated it, but this was a real innovation, and came a full 2 years before the Ampex ACR 25. Thanks to Barry Mitchell for the reminder. -Bobby Ellerbee
Sightseeing #2…’Today’ Show, Set Tours And Ikegami HK322s It’s not often that we get to see the Ikegami cameras at NBC, or a complete new set change on a major show, but in this video we get both. We start with the Friday, September 7, 1990 sign off from Studio 8H and the old set. […]
Inside Breaking News…Live At CNN For The Challenger Disaster About a half hour before the Challenger space shuttle was launched on January 28, 1986, a CNN tape crew had come into the main news studio to shoot a feature on how the news is covered. What their camera recorded in Atlanta was the same kind […]
Picture Parade #5…’Gone With The Wind’ Technicolor Closeup Having seen one of these huge Technicolor camera blimps in the Oz photo earlier, I wanted to give you a feel for how big they really were. On the set of ‘Gone With The Wind’, here is director Victor Fleming looking into the viewfinder. Behind him is […]
EXCLUSIVE ULTRA RARITY! NBC 3rd Floor 1933 Configuration For once and for all, this will put to rest any doubts on the history of the conversion of NBC Studio 3H to 3K. Until yesterday, when I received this drawing of the original 1933 radio studio configuration, there had never been a reliable floor plan available […]