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 […]
Classic Ed Sullivan…Zippy And The Cameramen In this short but sweet piece from April of 1961, Zippy the chimp gives the Sullivan camera crew a workout as they try to follow him. Notice Camera 2 is Zoomar equipped. All are RCA TK11/31s. Typically, there were three cameras on stage, one at floor level at the […]
MAJOR NEW YORK STUDIOS HISTORY UPDATE…. WOR – ABC – NBC – VIDEO TAPE CENTER/ 67th Street Studios In this RCA Broadcast News magazine from the fall of 1950, starting on page 46, this 27 page article gives us a complete and total tour of the new WOR Television Center on 67th Street, AND, some […]
December 20,1938…Vladimir Zworykin Patented The Iconoscope Although there was controversy over a lot of patents and inventions in electronic television between Philo Farnsworth and Zworykin and RCA, there is no contention over the development of the Iconoscope. Zworykin had built one as early at October 1931. At the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, two of the […]