KTLA Innovation: Television's First Videotaped Western 'The Wrangler' was a six episode summer replacement series…
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KTLA Innovations
KTLA Innovations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517dCXFUufQ&ab_channel=historycomestolife July 4, 1958 KTLA became the first station anywhere to broadcast live…
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The Original Sketch of the RCA TK42
In case you have never seen it, here is the very first sketch of the…
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The First Thomson Camera?
The First Thomson Camera? Close but no cigar...this is the second Thomson camera. Sent to…
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A Total Rarity…The GE PC 15 Color Camera
This is a companion to the just posted GE PC 25 photo from Martin Perry,…
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A Total Rarity…The GE PC 25 Color Camera
Unfortunately, there are none of these cameras left. The few that were ever made are…
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Big Weather, July 1974…WAGA Atlanta
In the summer of 1974, before chroma key walls, virtual sets, or the sleek digital…
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Lot Of Camera History In This :30 Promo
Thanks to Martin Perry for sharing this remarkable clip. It turns out KTVT in Fort…
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First Network Television Broadcast From Boston
On January 23, 1948, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM, NBC carried out what became the…
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Cinema’s First Known Zoom Lens Shot…
https://youtu.be/JzUddMQczJU?t=36 In this clip, starting at 2:00, we see what is thought to be the…
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Ladies And Gentlemen…Meet The Voice Of Sleeping Beauty
Before she became the voice that generations would associate with Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, Mary Costa…
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Huntley-Brinkley + Garroway-Blair Cover Kennedy-Nixon Election?
YES, because it is very early in the morning and the TODAY Show is starting…
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AS RARE AS RARE CAN BE! Ikegami’s First Studio Color Camera(s)
These are Ikegami's First Studio Color Cameras! Above is the Ikegami TK 301, the granddaddy…
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Remember The Overmyer/United Network?
The Overmyer—later United—Network remains one of television’s most fascinating near‑misses. The photo shared by Maureen…
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The Muppets First Big Break…The Jimmy Dean Show
This one caught me off guard too. Before the world knew the Muppets as a…
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Superman’s First “Flight Through the Air”
Just for fun… here’s the moment Superman literally took to the air for the very…
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‘Person To Person’ Comes For A Visit
In 1956, Edward R. Murrow’s “eyes and ears” visited Hal March on Person to Person,…
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State Of The Art Mobile Television, 1963
In 1963, KPRC‑TV in Houston deployed two advanced mobile television units that were custom-built for…
