The GE PC 15 Color Camera #2
This is the very rare GE PC 15 color camera on a demonstration set at WRGB in Schenectady, New York. The PC 15 came out in 1958 and was updated around 1965 and renamed the PC 25. This 3 Image Orthicon creation resembles the RCA TK41 in looks and mass, but weighs in at ‘only’ 215 pounds compared to the TK42’s 280 pounds and the TK41’s 350 pounds.
One That Never Made It RCA once disclosed that they had spent over $200,000,000 developing color television. I don’t doubt it…it was expensive work to do and this Tri Color Vidicon tube is proof. Here in this photo from April of 1953, Dr. Paul Weimer of RCA Labs poses with the new tube idea and […]
For those of us interested in the technical side of broadcast history, this comes as a surprise. Pictured here are two shots from the set of the November 1960 Presidential Election coverage, in which John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon. This was at the CBS Grand Central location, where, for this occasion Studio 41 and […]
NBC’s First Cameramen…Albert Protzman And Don Pike The man without glasses is NBC’s first ever cameraman, Albert Protzman. The second camera hire was Don Pike who is seen in this beautiful color closeup of an RCA A500 Iconoscope camera in NBC Studio 3H. Pike went on to become either the first or second ever technical […]
August 12, 1881…Cecil B. DeMille Was Born, And With Him: “Epics” DeMille was one of the greatest film directors and producers of all time. His name was synonymous with the word “epic” and he brought some of the biggest films ever made to the screen. In the photo, we see him talking with Charlton Heston, […]