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Last of the Mohicans?
Last of the Mohicans? Neither I, Chuck Pharis or Jim Elyea at History For Hire…
Video Tape Center
The Password Is "Video Tape Center"...The Answer, Part 2 From time to time, all of…
Another Look At The Sullivan Theater Balcony
Another Look At The Sullivan Theater Balcony Thanks to Dennis Degan, we got some new…
Here’s Where The Historic Sullivan Cameras Retired To…
Here's Where The Historic Sullivan Cameras Retired To... https://eyesofageneration.com/where-the-ed-sullivan-beatles-cameras-finally-wound-up/ At the link above, you can…
CBS Studios 53 to 56…Liederkrantz Hall, 111 East 58th Street
CBS Studios 53 to 56...Liederkrantz Hall, 111 East 58th St This facility was an old…
Television In Simpler Times…
Television In Simpler Times... Covering the Inglewood Christmas parade November 23, 1962, here's a KTTV…
The First Camera Dolly, 1936
The First Camera Dolly, 1936 In the patent application, this is referred to as a…
The Cradle Head Patent
Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention...The Cradle Head Patent The Fearless Camera Company and RCA…
In The Beginning…CBS STUDIO CITY
In The Beginning...CBS STUDIO CITY Below left is the original property as it looked in…
‘Bread Time Stories’, WRGB Schenectady NY
'Bread Time Stories', WRGB Schenectady NY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbO7-F7lTfQ&ab_channel=CBS6Albany Although WRGB was NBC Television's first affiliate, they…
When Networks Owned Their Own Remote Fleets
When Networks Owned Their Own Remote Fleets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQalMEtkSS0&ab_channel=ArthurCollins Above is a good video of the…
A Rare Piece Of Equipment..The ‘Cinimobile’…
This is an ad for the Houston Fearless 'Cinimobile' hydraulic dolly. Last week I posted…
Inside The First RCA Experimental Color Cameras
Inside The First RCA Experimental Color Cameras This is Richard C. Webb, designer of the…
Why It Was Called “Walkie Lookie”
Why It Was Called "Walkie Lookie" Yes, this portable wireless Vidicon camera had a lot…
One Of A Kind Photo
One Of A Kind Photo This is the full complement of equipment associated with the…
KTLA Innovation: Television’s First Videotaped Western ‘The Wrangler’
KTLA Innovation: Television's First Videotaped Western 'The Wrangler' was a six episode summer replacement series…
The Original Sketch of the RCA TK42
In case you have never seen it, here is the very first sketch of the…
First Network Television Broadcast From Boston
On January 23, 1948, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM, NBC carried out what became the…
State Of The Art Mobile Television, 1963
In 1963, KPRC‑TV in Houston deployed two advanced mobile television units that were custom-built for…
The First Order For Color Equipment…
The First Order For Color Equipment... Before any other local station, WBAP-TV (now KXAS or…