A Rare Color Photo of CBS Television City Studio 33 Perhaps the most famous of…
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Museum Of Broadcast Technology: Camera Floor
This is a short but sweet video from the Museum Of Broadcast Technology near Boston.…
Museum Of Broadcast Technology: Tape Room 1
Museum Of Broadcast Technology: Tape Room 1 When I began to collect cameras in 2004,…
The RCA Kinescope Machine
The RCA Kinescope Machine September 13, 1947 -- Kodak and NBC develop 'kinescopes', which use…
GE, Second Prototype Color Test, Field Sequential
GE, Second Prototype Color Test The camera closest to us, with the operator standing, is…
RCA Orthicon Camera, WTOP Washington
RCA Orthicon Camera, WTOP Washington A couple of days ago, Val Ginter in NYC asked…
How Hot Is It? Pretty Hot!
How Hot Is It? Pretty Hot! It's not often that you see a TK11 opened…
Soupy Sales: 1964 WNEW
Soupy Sales: 1964 WNEW Even though WNEW was the old Dumont owned WABD, it's still…
WGN: Chicago Sports Pioneer
WGN: Chicago In 1960, between the Cubs and White Sox, WGN televised 120 baseball games…
Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention
Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention The Colonial Theater in NYC was literally ground zero…
NBC’s Mega Mobile Unit: 1952
NBC's Mega Mobile Unit: 1952 This is quite a step up from the unit in…
Zoomar VS Varotal
Zoomar VS Varotal It would be interesting to see the difference. Here, two Pye cameras,…
1936 Telefunken Camera 1 of 2
1936 Telefunken Camera 1 of 2 The cameraman is Walter Bruch and he's shown here…
1936 Telefunken Camera 2 of 2
1936 Telefunken Camera 2 of 2 This is without a doubt the largest 'made for…
President Eisenhower’s Funeral
President Eisenhower's Funeral I think what we see here is CBS preparing for coverage of…
Varotal Mark III Field Lens
Varotal Mark III Field Lens This is quite a big boy and I would imagine…
John Vassos: Transparent Television
John Vassos: Transparent Television Yesterday, I posted a story on industrial design pioneer John Vassos…
John Vassos and RCA ‘Television’
John Vassos and RCA 'Television' If you look where Milton's hand is, you are seeing…
Surprise, Surprise! Who knew that ABC had robotic cameras this early?
Surprise, Surprise! Who knew that ABC had robotic cameras this early? The cameras I think…
RCA Color Television: January 1954
RCA Color Television: January 1954 In this special issue of RCA Broadcast News, everything you…
CLASSIC: ‘Person To Person’
CLASSIC: 'Person To Person' History Above, cameraman Norm Hannin (who looks a lot like David…