Picture Parade 3…Everybody Loves A Winner
Here’s a fun shot from 1957. I think this is at the Raleigh-Durham airport where Tar Heal fans are gathering to welcome the new NCAA basketball champs home to the University of North Carolina.
These RCA TK 11/31s were real workhorses. Notice the far camera has an Angenieux zoom. Enjoy! -Bobby Ellerbee
November 15, 1926…The First NBC Radio Broadcast, Part 3 The “Color” Networks…Red, Blue, White, Gold And Orange If you thought there was just Red and Blue, think again, but these didn’t all occur on November 15, 1926. In the beginning, NBC operated two networks: NBC Blue, headed by station WJZ, and NBC Red, headed by […]
AÂ fascinating 27 page report on the CBS color facility in New York, Studio 72, from May of 1955. [pdf-embedder url=”https://staging.eyesofageneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CBS-Introduction-To-Color-Studio-72-New-York-AR-pd-_.pdf”]
December 20, 1954…Jackie Glea$on & Buick $ign Large$t Ever TV Deal In 1954, General Motors Buick brand signed Jackie Gleason to one of the largest contracts ever entered into with an entertainer at that time. Buick had just dropped their sponsorship of Milton Berle on NBC and were looking for a big play. Gleason’s one […]
The Great Dennis James…A Video Tribute By Monty Hall Few have had a carrier like this…as you’ll see, even Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope respected the trail he blazed. Dennis James was among the first television announcers and game show hosts, and “made his bones”, partially by cracking chicken bones (on mic) as he called […]
Today, OSHA would not let you have workers up there without a railing or fall arrest. Love that rakish handle on the TK11/31.
I can almost feel the x-rays coming out of the viewfinder through the picture. 🙂