The One And Only…NBC Camera Limousine
I’ve shown you this car before, but thanks to Troy Walters in Australia, here’s another look at it from a magazine of the day.
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Television Mobile Unit for 1953 Presidential Inaugural Parade
Mobile TV Unit for 1953 Inaugural Parade
Election Night, 1976 Here’s Frank Reynolds at ABC New York during a break. Notice the Norelco cameras are still in use, but by the next presidential election in 1980, Ikigami HK312s would be in use at ABC. Source
Picture Parade 4…I’ll Tell You A Secret If You Promise Not To Tell This is a shot from the Control Room of CBS Studio 72 in New York…the only color facility the network had in the east. On stage, we see four RCA TK41 color cameras, but can you spot the fifth one? Yes, that’s […]
TV Lens Week…Post 3: Studio Box Lens vs ENG/EFP Lens Canon’s Larry Thorpe explains the differences and who better? Before joining Canon, Larry was an engineer who built cameras at the BBC, then RCA where he worked on the TK42 and 44 and later went to Sony to help in the development of their studio […]
TeleTales #50…Double Header History In The Making This is the story of the first MLB night game broadcast and…a little more. The article from June of 1941 also gives us what I think is the first ever look at the RCA Model 1846 Orthicon camera. It has been hard to get a date on when […]