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NBC Television Lighting, 1940
Fabled NBC Studio 3H proved not to be only a testing ground for the new…
The Planning & Design of NBC Studio 3H…Home Of Electronic Television
This is TV MEGA HISTORY! In 1935, RCA leaned forward into the development and testing…
NBC Broadcast Operations, Program Schedule Sheets, 1949-51
Four pages of Operations Sheets from NBC Television's early days. This is the best ever…
A 1958 Dress Rehearsal, At “The Ed Sullivan Show”
Before all the live shots below were made on a Sunday night in December of…
THE NBC BUILT, ND-8G CAMERAS
UPDATED March 3, 2023: Around 2010, I found a photo of an odd looking NBC…
THE SECRET BACKSTORY OF THE RCA TK 44
Chapter One: by Bobby Ellerbee Over a period of months in 2009, I spoke…
HISTORY FOR HIRE: A Grand Tour of Hollywood’s Top TV Prop House
In February of 2011, Concord, California camera collector John Bolin took a tour of Hollywood's…
The Virtual Archives of RCA Engineer Harry Wright
He helped design the RCA TK42, TK42XX, TK43, TK44, TK47, TK48, TK76 and more. The…
CBS Field Sequential Color Cameras at Studio 57
Below I have collected more than twenty images of the fabled CBS Field Sequential Color…
Six Decades of “Tonight”
THE TONIGHT SHOW: Six Decades of Television and Camera History A look back at more…
WSB-TV: The Early Years
Here are about 16 images from Georgia’s first TV station, WSB-TV in Atlanta, showing their…
WAGA-TV: The Early Years
This was Atlanta’s second TV station. It was a CBS affiliate until the late 1980s.…
WKY-TV: First In Local Live Color
In this piece, you'll see television history in the making that starts in 1949 and…
1929: Radio Movies in Color
One of the leaders of Bell Labs had an idea of how to show the…
1930: Television Gives Radio Eyes and Ears
Discussions of 1929 TV milestones like 'color over a wire' and other events are described,…
1931: 3-D Television?!
And you thought 3-D television was a new thing. Ha!
1932: David Sarnoff on “Where Television Stands Today”
"Where Television Stands Today" is an 8-page article written for Modern Mechanics by one of…