Takes A Lickin’ And Keeps On Tickin’
This is the Vinten ‘Heron’ studio crane and a Marconi Mark VIII plumbicon camera at the CBC studios in Montreal in the early to mid 70s. After a long stay in storage, it was returned to service last year.
Camera Rarities 1, Of 3…First NBC Tests Of The RCA TK30? Thanks to Tom Buckley, here is a very rare photo, that I think was taken in the two week period between June 5 and June 18, 1946. On June 19, 1946, NBC’s broadcast of the Joe Lewis-Billy Conn rematch at Yankee Stadium, was the […]
‘Peter Pan Live’…Camera Rehearsals Start Tomorrow… Our friends Rob Balton, Tore Liva and Charlie Huntley are among the 14 or so camera operators that started work yesterday at The Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York, about 25 miles outside NYC. This is the same site used for last years NBC live presentation of ‘The Sound […]
TeleTales #100…When Your’e Hot, Your’e Hot! Television City Here’s an RCA TK11 in cool down mode, on a “Playhouse 90” set at CBS Television City. As opposed to cameras at local stations, network cameras get a real work out. They are on for hours on end blocking shots and rehearsing. This one is mounted on […]
Meet “Miss Patience”…Television’s First Stand In (+ Rare Video) This is inside television’s first studio…3H at NBC in New York in May 1936. If you look closely, you can see that “Miss Patience” is actually a mannequin, which is why she was so “patient”. Miss Patience came to be, when Betty Goodwin, television’s first female […]