The Edison Studios...Home Of The First Motion Pictures In 1907, Edison had new facilities built…
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First KFO…Two Points Of Interest
Two Points Of Interest... Before it was renamed 'Kukla, Fran And Ollie' in October of…
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CBS Uses Thomson Cameras…1985 NCAA Championships
CBS Uses Thomson Cameras...1985 NCAA Championships Yesterday, veteran cameraman Kevin Vahey mentioned in a note…
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Vintage Video Collections
America's Camera Collections My friend Richard Wirth recently published this article "Vintage Video Collections" that…
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‘All Star Review’, 1952…One Of The First Camera Mounted Teleprompters
'All Star Review', 1952 In the last year of so of this NBC show, Martha…
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Look Ma…No Viewfinders!
Look Ma...No Viewfinders! The RCA TK30s became available in late 1946, but there was some…
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Small World…As it turns out, this is one of my RCA TK60s.
Small World... As it turns out, this is one of my RCA TK60s. I just…
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One Of My Favorite Cameras…Marconi Mark IV
One Of My Favorite Cameras This is the Marconi Mark IV. It's standard tube was…
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The Baughman Pedestal
The Baughman Pedestal This little mobile pedestal was a real work horse from the 1950s…
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The CBS Field Sequential Color System
The Answer to Randy West's Question, And More... In a recent post showing the CBS…
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NBC Burbank Studio 1
Now You Know Why... Ever wonder why Johnny Carson sometime looked like he was talking…
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Per Episode Production Cost Of One Hour Shows 1970
Per Episode Production Cost Of One Hour Shows The 1970s was the first full decade…
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Early Color Challenges
Early Color Challenges How do you develop first quality color broadcasts without the ability to…
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How ‘I Love Lucy’ Was Produced…The Details
Above is a view of tri-set layout on Stage 2 of General Service Studio where…
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‘I Love Lucy’…What The Actors Saw
'I Love Lucy' From the set, here is a look at what Lucy, Rickey, Fred…
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Live From Leiderkrantz Hall?
Live From Leiderkrantz Hall? Yes! That was where Douglas Edwards began hosting network television's very…
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Day One Of ‘Today’
Day One Of 'Today' Below is a photo taken on January 14, 1952...the day 'Today'…
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‘Mike And Buff’
'Mike And Buff' In response to yesterday's post on the CBS color broadcasts, Mark VonderEmbse…
