Elton John…The Central Park Concert, September 13, 1980
We don’t see the RCA TK46 often, but thanks to John Senuta’s recent email of this great shot of Elton, it’s time to take another look. The other photos here are from our friend Dennis Degan, who I think was still working at Reeves Teletape at the time. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Monkeying Around With The Cameras…April 9, 1961 Here’s great short clip of Zippy The Chimp on Ed Sullivan’s stage giving the cameramen a moving target and us, some great shots of the RCA TK11s. At least one has a Zoomar lens and at the end, a HF TD 1 pedestal gets a new use. Enjoy […]
‘The Price Is Right’…Behind The Scenes, 1982 This is 10 years into Bob Barker’s reign as host and 3 years before the passing of Johnny Olson. Before seeing this, I had never thought of Johnny as a disco dancer…after seeing it, I still don’t but you have to give him an A for effort. Interestingly, […]
In Loving And Living Memory Of KTTV…Jim Diaz Restorations I just got the pictures in from our friend Jim Diaz in California. He has a passion for KTTV’s history and in the process of writing a book on the station’s history, but in the mean time has restored one of his TK 31s as a […]
Jim McKay on NBC? CBS Too? Actually, yes! With the Olympics upon us, I thought you may like to know that NBC was classy enough to include Jim McKay three times in it’s Olympics coverage over the years. In 2002, ABC “loaned” McKay to NBC to serve as a special correspondent during the Winter Olympic […]
My first station replaced their TK42s with TK46s in 1978. What a relief in doing camera setup.
Reeves TeleTape was one of the “hot” trucks in those days that EVERY ONE wanted to use!
I worked for R/T for 6 1/2 years. At this time, I had only been working for them for a year or so . . .
During the concert, I was at the edge of the stage pulling cable for one of the ped cameras. I got some great photos of Elton.