Remember ABC’s White Cameras?
ABC veteran cameraman Don ‘Peaches’ Langford is pictured here on one of his first assignments in the mid 60s. He’s shooting the top of a ski run from about a mile away, and notice the lens. It’s not a Zoomar…it’s a telescope lens with no zoom and the focus was done manually. The camera is an RCA TK10.
CBS Color At Television City & The Bob Crosby Show (1953-57) In the mid to late 50’s and even in the early 60s, there seems to be no particular rhyme or reason as to when CBS shows from Television City would be done in color,as none were colorcast on a regular basis, but once or […]
Something Borrowed and Something Blue, Red and Green January 1, 1954 was the first time the new RCA/NBC color trucks were used. Unlike the black and white RCA Tele Mobile units from the ’30s, which had a camera/switching truck and a transmitter truck, both color trucks were camera trucks, with the signal feed handled by […]
Here’s a catalog for GE’s 1951 offerings.
Here’s a fantastic 2 minute time lapse look at ‘Saturday Night Live’. This was shot a on April 5 of this year and features Pharrell Williams singing “Happy” and Anna Kendrick as the host. Remember that? I was there a month later on May 3rd. My seat was on the floor, front row left as […]