RCA TK60s In Action…WRVA, Richmond Virginia 1965
This kids show with WRVA cameraman “Sailor Bob” Griggs as host, was built around Popeye cartoons and ran locally from 1959 till 1969. Thanks to Bob’s son, Tom Griggs for sharing this. I think this was shot on film by one of the stations news cameramen.
Judy Garland…Jack Paar’s Storytelling At It’s Best Aside from Television City, the other part of our Memorial Day Weekend special features include the great, Judy Garland. This is a very rare audio recording made by Jack Paar about a day he spent with Judy in Hollywood. Paar is a legendary storyteller and this is the […]
November 20, 1958…First Known Videotape Edited Show Airs Seated on the right is director John Frankenheimer watching Ross Murray edit “Old Man”, which was a ‘Playhouse 90’ presentation that aired November 20, 1958. This was the first time an entire production had ever been videotaped in advance and edited for air. The year before, Frankenheimer […]
This photo is from a 1948 RCA Broadcast News Magazine. The article was about some new equipment at the NBC Washington station, WNBW and this was added as a reminder of how far television had come. Note the caption states that, aside from an antenna, this is the whole station! The transmitter is on the […]
Inside The 1939 World’s Fair Camera Here is what was inside one of the first RCA Iconoscope cameras. This was pretty much a point and shoot operation. The lens box was probably interchangeable to accommodate wide and medium angle lenses with a set focus. No viewfinder or eyepiece…just point it and hope for the best. […]