Picture Parade 4…White Shoes And Color News
This is the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami. Pictured with Mike Wallace is the governor of Florida, Miss Florida and an overloaded cameraman. That hefty bundle is the Norelco PCP 90 with a 35 pound camera and a 25 pound back pack transmitter. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
May 17, 1930…Construction Begins On Rockefeller Center Of the 21 buildings on 15 acres in midtown New York, that make up Rockefeller Center, none are more famous than Radio City Music Hall, and the home of NBC…30 Rockefeller Plaza. In the construction photo, we see in the center, the excavated footprint of 30 Rock. Notice, […]
ULTRA RARE…FIRST “TONIGHT” SHOW, Part 2 of 2 To get the full effect of this historic footage, that is just now become available online, make sure you see and read Part 1, posted earlier today. This is Monday, September 27. 1954…debut night, and full of surprises for everyone…including those of us watching now. Steve Allen’s […]
For The Young At Heart And Strong Of Bladder…Times Square The good news is, they have a front row seat for America’s biggest party. The bad news is, once you are there, you can’t leave and get back in. I’ll bet there are some mighty long restroom lines. Thanks to Geoffrey DeVoe, Eric Eisenstein, Craig […]
A while back, my friend John Bolin came from California to see my camera collection. He brought along a few old Kodak shots of a camera he made as a boy of 13. No doubt it’s a TK30 mock up, complete with toilet paper rolls for lenses and Christmas tree lights for tally lights. You […]
I remember the PCP 70….. the PCP 90 wasn’t that much better as far as weight.
You can almost hear the vertibrae compressing…
I am sure the cameraman had to worry about framing his shots, and not show the signage of the competition in the background.
I wonder about the radiation of the transmitter on his back…
Yeah—what Russell said: This is a PCP-90. Still will send you to the chiropractor after a few hours!
Looks pretty well balanced compared to some Philips and BTS cameras I’ve used.
That CBS font is so timeless.
The original Go Pro!
No creepy peepy?
If you go into the CBS Broadcast Center in NY on of those is on display in the lobby area.
Was that the porta-Pak nicknamed the “Creepy-Peepe?”
For a moment, I thought that was Pat Boone
Oh yea!!!…..A PCP90..nothing but a PC70 cut in half….sheesh!
Like working inside a microwave oven.
Another great pic, thanks Bobby!
Looks like he is wearing braces on his legs … or maybe that is an arm rest ….
We had a PCP-90 at WRET in Charlotte in 1977. It was used to shoot wrestling in the studio. We also used it to shoot this tour of the station late one night (I’m the ‘host’ of the video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAp1Q7BTUxQ&list=UUA2EohsdZUfghPn9ijrBvzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JAWv7SLLdo&list=UUA2EohsdZUfghPn9ijrBvzA
The manual I had called the early Norlco’s Hand helds “Little Shaver” not kidding. I worked that same convention for ABC and we used the 2 tube Ampex camera “Handi Lookie”.Peaches
Norelco seemed to always style cameras with square lens shrouds.