Rare! RCA TK41C Brochure
For those of us that love the big silver beast, here is a link to a catalog write up from RCA in the early 60s, courtesy of our friend Steve McVoy at The Early Television Foundation and Museum. Enjoy and share!
CBUT Marconi Mark IIs Cover Empire Games, Vancouver The Mark II cameras that were just found were a key element in covering this, and all events of the 1954 Empire Games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_NzZP_LK0 On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile at Iffley Road, Oxford. He held his world record for just six […]
How The Great Neumann U87 Is Made… My favorite mic. Enjoy. -Bobby Ellerbee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtjHhtxmpI Interesting little clip about how a Neumann U87 microphone is manufactured. Pretty fiddly, with a ton of hand labor – no wonder they’re so freaking expensive! Source
Crane Day At “The Tropicana” This is a rare sight! Here, on the ‘I Love Lucy’ set, a huge stage crane is getting a special shot at Ricky’s club. Usually, there are three dolly mounted Mitchell cameras on the set, but occasionally Karl Freund (DOP) and Jess Oppenheimer (Producer) would bring in a big crane. […]
Ultra Rare! CBS Studio 41 (Grand Central) Spec Sheets…1960 At 44′ X 60′, this is the smaller of the two studios at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue. The CBS Grand Central studios were on the third floor and the scenery door was on Depew Place at the building’s southeast entrance. CBS had been in this location since […]