TeleTales #47…You’ve Come A Long Way Baby!
Given all of the Super Bowl coverage, I thought a look back at 1960 state of the art mobile production was in order. This is the new RCA twin truck unit recently purchased by Los Angeles based Glenn-Armistead Productions.
The production truck (bottom) carried 4 RCA TK11/31 black and white and 4 RCA TK41 color cameras. The tape truck had two huge RCA TRT 1B color tape machines and an entire 16 and 35mm film chain. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Clarabell #3, Lew Anderson This is the man most of us remember as Clarabell. Lew took over the roll in 1954 and was the one that delivered the famous “Good bye kids” line on the last show in 1960. Although Howdy Doody had been on since 1947, most of us never saw the show till […]
TeleTales #94…”Family Feud”, ABC Hollywood From Donna Quante, who used to operate one of the two Chapman Sidewinders in this picture, here is a shot of the studio with Gene Wood doing the audience warm up at the lower right. This show used five Ikegami cameras, and all the operators wore jackets and sweaters daily, […]
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve had a lot of exposure to magnetic recording, especially video. We’ve also learned just how deeply involved Bing Crosby and Ampex were in building the foundations of this media, so today, we are going to look at the beginning of audio tape and it’s use in radio with […]
January 12, 1966…’Batman’ Debuts On ABC There are a several rare video pieces here for you to see including this embedded clip (no audio) of a location shoot of a scene from the first episode with Frank Gorshin and Bert Ward. In this clip, we see the competing casting of the two teams of Batman […]
First reference I have ever seen to having a mobile film chain.
I bet alignment of the film chain camera was a bear for every remote.
I guess the film chain was so they could insert the commercials?
Looks like a full equipped mobile TV station!
Did Glenn-Armistead have anything to do with Mark Armistead, the film equip rental house in Hollywood?
These trailers later became NBC mobile units N4 based in Burbank, with a carryall for cable, etc, added later.