Yet Another Disappearing TV Camera!
In this 1984 video, UK magician Paul Daniels makes a Link 125 studio camera vanish! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cCXBCD6Ols
On a 1984 edition of his magic show, Paul Daniels makes a Link 125 camera disappear.
Did you know CBS made tubes? I didn’t either till I saw this old ad with Gary Moore. The tube business was probably a part of the TV set maker, Hytron that CBS bought in 1951 to make ‘Air King’ home receiver sets compatible with it’s Field Sequential color system. Interestingly most of those home […]
Now this is interesting! The Vinten Peregrine was a failed experiment in camera crane technology. Designed to a BBC spec, it was delivered to Television Centre in 1965. The idea was to build a camera crane that would fit on the footprint of a Vinten ped, but have the range of a Mole crane and […]
A one-page article on the DuMont Electronicam and its use on Jackie Gleason’s classic program The Honeymooners. It combined television and film. .
A Wonderful Primer On Early Color Television… From the Eyes Of A Generation’s archives, here a well done “Atlantic Magazine” story on the ladies that were both known as “Miss Color TV”, NBC’s Marie McNamara, and CBS’s Patty Painter. This also covers the progressions and setbacks encountered by both networks, in their race to bring […]