The Story Of The Ruby Slippers, Part 3 & 4
The discovery came in the spring of 1970…here is the story!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8TrN-RGLOg PART 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKebFys0Vt0 PART 4
The Story behind the most famous pair of slippers ever made.
Wow! This nine-page article from Mechanix Illustrated is full of pictures, but the story is the biggie. TV had a lot of problems getting off the ground and a lot of those are laid out here. Sarnoff is being pushed by the government, costs of development are explored, problems with linking the coasts, and a […]
January 25, 1961…Television’s First Live Presidential News Conference There are three videos with this article; the embedded footage is of President Kennedy hosting the first live news conference, and notice at 10:05, a reporter asks if taking questions live is a good thing given that live there is the occasion to mis-speak and rile international […]
After months of searching, I finally know the story behind this fabulous photo array! This is NBC’s ‘Saturday Color Carnival: A Salute To Baseball’! This was done live from the Colonial Theater in the early spring of 1957. Notice a couple of the cameras are RCA TK40s and a couple are TK41s. The lineup of […]
Rare NBC Brooklyn Studios Footage With TK41s It’s not often that we get to see the Brooklyn Studios, or the RCA TK41s in action, and this is one the only one I know of that exists. Some of the people we know are here include Don Mulvaney on the crane (red sweater) and Frank Gaeta […]