February 1, 1982…”Late Night” With David Letterman Debuts, NBC Two videos for you to mark the 33rd Anniversary, first here are two rare promos that ran the weekend before the show debuted on a Monday night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIUPlDEFgfw The second video below is from the second night on the air and Dave starts the show by […]
KCOP Los Angeles…Behind The Scenes Rose Parade 1979 Using what look like Norelco PC72 cameras and some very odd camera art, we see how KCOP covered the parade. There’s also at least one familiar face which belongs to David Crosthwait of DC Video. Enjoy and remember to visit the EOAG page to see all of […]
Angenieux Evershed Lens This is the ‘box zoom’ lens made by Angenieux but it was very rare to see one of these in the US. The Rank-Taylor-Hobson zoom lenses were more common here on RCA cameras, but occasionally you saw one, as on the WDAF camera in the photo just before this. Source
In Better Days… Here’s a rare color shot of Jackie Kennedy taken during her famous tour of the White House in 1962. There were 8 TK11/31s there for the 7 hour taping session and the CBS producer played back some video tape at the end of the day for her and President Kennedy, who seemed […]