The First Robotic Overhead Camera…NBC’s “Home” Show

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The First Robotic Overhead Camera…NBC’s “Home” Show

Now, this is BIG! So, big you can hardly see the RCA TK11 mounted in this massive contraption. By comparison, this dwarfs a studio crane boom arm, that may have served the same purpose.

The video here is shot from overhead camera and WOW…wait till you see the 3 camera ballet with RCA TK11s on the studio floor! 

“Home” (1954-1957) was broadcast from NBC’s 67th Street Studios at 101 W. 67th, which was being leased from WOR. This facility was built in 1949 as WOR’s 9 Television Square building, but mergers called for their studios to move to the Empire State Bldg in early ’54.

NBC was looking for a home for “Home” and this place had the space for an innovative state in the round, with the kind of informal staging that “Today” enjoyed. -Bobby Ellerbee

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