Look At The Floor In the days of live television, floor marks for cameras, booms,…
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The Beautiful RCA TK11
The Beautiful RCA TK11 I think this is one of the best looking cameras ever…
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Philo Farnsworth, Box Camera, Model 1
Philo Farnsworth, Box Camera, Model 1 This is the great granddaddy of all electronic television…
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Farnsworth Camera, Image 1
Farnsworth Camera, Image 1 Philo Farnsworth had built two or three cameras before this mid…
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The Man Who Filmed ‘I Love Lucy’, Tells Us How It Was Done.
The Man Who Filmed 'I Love Lucy', Tells Us How It Was Done. By: KARL…
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The Rank-Taylor-Hobson Zoom Lens
The Rank-Taylor-Hobson Zoom Lens By far, this was the most popular zoom for RCA TK41s…
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Angenieux Evershed Lens This is the ‘box zoom’ lens
Angenieux Evershed Lens This is the 'box zoom' lens made by Angenieux but it was…
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CBS Modified RCA Cameras Into Color Cameras
Side By Side On the left, the regular RCA TK30 monochrome camera, on the right,…
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A Rare Color Photo of CBS Television City Studio 33
A Rare Color Photo of CBS Television City Studio 33 Perhaps the most famous of…
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Museum Of Broadcast Technology: Tape Room 1
Museum Of Broadcast Technology: Tape Room 1 When I began to collect cameras in 2004,…
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The RCA Kinescope Machine
The RCA Kinescope Machine September 13, 1947 -- Kodak and NBC develop 'kinescopes', which use…
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GE, Second Prototype Color Test, Field Sequential
GE, Second Prototype Color Test The camera closest to us, with the operator standing, is…
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RCA Orthicon Camera, WTOP Washington
RCA Orthicon Camera, WTOP Washington A couple of days ago, Val Ginter in NYC asked…
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How Hot Is It? Pretty Hot!
How Hot Is It? Pretty Hot! It's not often that you see a TK11 opened…
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Soupy Sales: 1964 WNEW
Soupy Sales: 1964 WNEW Even though WNEW was the old Dumont owned WABD, it's still…
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WGN: Chicago Sports Pioneer
WGN: Chicago In 1960, between the Cubs and White Sox, WGN televised 120 baseball games…
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Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention
Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention The Colonial Theater in NYC was literally ground zero…
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NBC’s Mega Mobile Unit: 1952
NBC's Mega Mobile Unit: 1952 This is quite a step up from the unit in…