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…
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The RCA TJ 48, Television’s Local Market Workhouse
If you worked in local television in the late ’40s or early ’50s, chances are…
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EMI’s C.P.S. Emitron Camera: 1951
If you want to understand where British television engineering stood in the early 1950s, the…
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Roll Credits For ’60 Minutes’
Roll Credits! This photo taken in Studio 45 shows the '60 Minutes' credit roll board…
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Up Close And Personal…The EMI 2001 Color Camera Video
Up Close And Personal...The EMI 2001 Color Camera The only place most of us in…
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CBS Broadcast Center Studios
CBS Broadcast Center Studios Here is the layout of the studios at the Broadcast Center…
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This is the Sony BVH 500 Video Recorder
In the video, notice that the tape reels are stacked on top of each other!…
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MAGNIFICENT!
MAGNIFICENT! Thanks to Glenn Mack for this fantastic photo taken during a rehearsal of 'The…
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CLASSIC! RCA TK41s In Action At NBC Brooklyn Studios
CLASSIC! RCA TK41s In Action At NBC Brooklyn Studios At 12:58 and 23:35, you'll see…