Here’s the an election set in Studio TV 2 at ABC New York with Peter Jennings down front. The evening news show comes from TV 3. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
One “Result” Of The 1987 NABET Strike At NBC…The Robots In the photo below, we see one of the first uses of robotic pedestals at NBC on the WNBC News set. This came shortly after the strike. In 1986, GE bought RCA for 6.4 billion dollars. That was quite a deal considering RCA had 3 […]
A Prime Example Of Field Innovation…Can You Spot It? Is it the well made cardboard viewfinder hood? No. Is it the plastic over the cable connector? No agian. Look closer. It’s the heating pad taped to the underside of the lens to keep the grease in the lens fluid. When you set up cameras that […]
Rare Layouts Of NBC’s First Studios…711 5th Avenue In 1925, RCA spent $1 million to buy New York’s WEAF Radio from AT&T and shortly after bought WJZ . In late 1926 RCA announced the creation of a new division known as The National Broadcasting Company. The new division was divided in ownership among RCA (50 […]
Point & Shoot…The First Portable Movie Camera, 1882 The design of the first “Chronograph” as it was called then, was made by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey and debuted at 1882 by the name of Fusil Photographique or photographic ‘rifle’. The rifle used a magazine consisting a plate film separated into 25 light tight compartments – […]