The Grandfather Of ENG Cameras, 1950
Last week, we looked at RCA’s wireless version of this portable Vidicon camera that was used in the coverage of the 1952 political conventions. Here is a good article with pictures on the cabled version of the grandfather of ENG cameras.
http://www.myvintagetv.com/rca_videcon_camera.htm
History’s First Marriage Of Recorded Sight And Sound…Circa 1894 From the inception of motion pictures, various inventors have attempted to unite sight and sound, but Edison did it first. The Edison Company is known to have experimented with this as early as the fall of 1894 under the supervision of W. K. L. Dickson with […]
From the early 1970s, here a copy the 31 page Norelco PC 70 catalog. This was television’s “new kid on the block” camera…the one that gave the big kid on the block (RCA) a run for the money and brought the Plumbicon tube to the forefront. Thanks to our friend Scott Baker for the use […]
Every so often, a television show comes along that quietly resets the tone of an entire genre. For kids’ programming in the late 1970s, that show was Kids Are People Too. ABC launched it on September 10, 1978, and for the next four years — right up through September 5, 1982 — it became the […]
The First Sign Of Trouble At RCA… Thanks to John Schipp, here is a great photo of Joe Garagiola and painter Leroy Neiman with Art Parker behind the camera…a Norelco camera! In 1964, RCA stopped production of the RCA TK41C and was switching over to the TK42. Fred Himelfarb was head of NBC Labs at […]