A trip down memory lane when 4 heads were better than one, and quad editing…
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RCA TR 4 Video Tape Machine Demo
This 1966 RCA demo on how their newest quad machine works is hosted by RCA's…
The BEST JOB In Live Television?
If you guessed "anything" at Saturday Night Live, you'd be 99% right, but only one…
Viewseum
The Viewseum is a portal for viewing things that belong in a museum of rare…
NBC/RCA First All Electronic Television Broadcast…July 7, 1936
[evp_embed_video url="http://CDN.eyesofageneration.com/Content/Viewseum/NBC1stB'cast.mp4" preload="none" template="mediaelement"] The First All Electronic Television Broadcast by RCA & NBC,…
The First 50 Years of Broadcasting
Going back to 1931, the names Farnsworth and Zworykin ring out as the editors of …
A PRIMER ON RCA’S EARLIEST COMPATABLE COLOR CAMERAS
I've just recently been able see these stunning in-house marketing photos that reveal some news…
INSIDE NBC’S COLONIAL THEATER & RCA’S COLOR EFFORT
In all these 15 years of research, I have never found this whole black and…
Video Tape…Images With Impact
This 23 minute presentation is a fine historical tutorial on early videotape editing, all the…
NBC Tour Book: 1939 World’s Fair…America’s View of Television
The first big push to bring television to the public's attention was mounted by RCA…
1931: Tour Of CBS Experimental TV Studio, W2XAB New York
Complete with pictures and drawings, this 1931 article from Science and Mechanics takes us on…
The Birth Of The Camera Mounted Electronic Viewfinder
With all of RCA's incredible advances and discoveries in television, you would have thought that…
AMAZING CBS COLOR STUDIO 72 NYC…COLOR FILM TOUR
Here is a newly discovered piece of color television history about one of the least…
A Production Primer By Television’s First Cameraman
In a photo taken in NBC's historic Studio 3H, we see Albert Protzman, the first…
The Rarely Seen GE PE 25 Color Camera
Thanks to our friend Martin Perry, this catalog is the only piece of GE information…
CBS Broadcast Center…1964 Introduction Book
This 60 page book was presented at the 1964 NAB Convention to introduce the new…
April 17, 1967…50 Years Ago, “The Joey Bishop Show” Debuted
http://www.emmytvlegends.org/news/april-17-1967-fifty-years-ago-today-the-joey-bishop-show-debuted-on-abc Here is the story I wrote for the Archive Of American Television site...home of…
April 14, 1956…Videotape Recording Debuts; Ampex VR-1000 Unveiled
On April 14,1956, this prototype Ampex VTR called "Mark IV" started a whole new era…