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
The RCA TK42, Au Natural… This photo is in regard to two post just below and show the TK42 in it’s factory configuration. Notice there is nothing sticking out of the front…that’s because the lens is internal, much like the RCA Iconoscope cameras. The TK42 had an internal zoom lens, but the Iconoscope internal lens […]
GE, Second Prototype Color Test The camera closest to us, with the operator standing, is a GE color camera prototype, using the CBS developed field sequential – color wheel system that could be added to image orthicon monochrome cameras. The far camera is a regular B/W GE camera. This photo is from around 1956 or […]
Soon, We’ll ALL Be Obsolete! When videotape came to television in the late 50s, about 40% of network employees were let go because now, a set could be erected once and a weeks worth of shows could be shot in one day. Back then, that was called “time shifting” and the daily routine of erecting […]
Side By Side On the left, the regular RCA TK30 monochrome camera, on the right, the CBS Field Sequential Color camera. As you can see, the color camera is a modified TK30. I’m sure that are some electronic mods, but notice the new box above the lens turret. That is the access to the red-green-blue […]