‘The Pontiac Star Parade’ 1959
Here’s Gene Kelly in the dress rehearsal at NBC Burbank. Below you can see a clip from the show that gives you a good look at one of the huge studios and some pretty fancy crane camera work at the start. The cameras were RCA TK41s.
December 30, 1953…The First Color TV Sets Go On Sale On December 17, 1953, the FCC approved the National Television System Committee’s recommendation of the RCA Dot Sequential color system. With the New Year’s Day Rose Parade just ahead, RCA pulled all the stops to broadcast it in color, and set up 20 target markets […]
Creating The SNL Title Sequences…A Detailed Look At The Process This is heaven for the many pro photographers and videographers among us, but even for laymen, this is quite interesting. Here is the detailed and technical description of the photographic process from the man who did it Alex Buono. From the lens tricks and cameras […]
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 […]
The Rank-Taylor-Hobson Zoom Lens By far, this was the most popular zoom for RCA TK41s and TK60s. The Zoomar was also very popular, but that was seen mostly on black and white cameras in use prior to the mid 60’s introduction of this lens. This is often refereed to as the Varotal III and Varotal […]