Remember Pinkey Lee? I do!
Pincus Leff (May 2, 1907 – April 3, 1993) was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Pee Wee Herman and Pee Wee’s Playhouse is loosely based on Pinkey Lee. I’m not sure but think this was done at KHJ. Anyone know?
There are two videos here. The first is a great look at the first CBS portable and wireless camera developed in 1961-62 by CBS VP of Technology Dr. Joe Flaherty with help from Ikegami. There were three prototypes with one at CBS O&O KMOX in St. Louis to test for use as an “electronic […]
Republican National Convention: 1940 This is an RCA Iconoscope camera from experimental station W3XE (now KYW) covering the RNC in Philadelphia for NBC in June of 1940, where Wendell Willkie was chosen to run against FDR. The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is one of the world’s oldest television stations. It began in 1932 as […]
THIS Is A REAL News Team! With election night just weeks away, take a look at the CBS team covering the 1964 election. The race was between Johnson and Goldwater and at the Broadcast Center, CBS was ready. L-R, Harry Reasoner, Roger Mudd, Eric Severeid, Mike Wallace, Robert Trout and Walter Cronkite. Unfortunately, they don’t […]
More Design Influence From John Vassos Even here, on this early RCA Mobile Unit, his style is present. The art decco chrome bands on the side and mudflaps are a Vassos touch. This 1947 shot from Times Square has a couple of TK30s on top of one of RCA’s first few remote trucks that were […]