Old And Rare…NBC Studio 3H, 1936
Taken in America’s first television studio, the contract for the RCA Pavillion at the 1939 World’s Fair is signed on a live broadcast. From left to right are NBC President Lenox Lohr, RCA President David Sarnoff and for the Fair Committee, Grover Whalen.
In late 1935, RCA converted NBC Radio Studio 3H to television use. It was equipped with three Iconoscope cameras and this is one the first three studio cameras ever made. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Inside NBC…Like Few Have Ever Seen It! Yesterday, from 10:30 till 3:30, I had the tour of a lifetime! My NBC tour guides were two men that have forgotten more NBC history than most ever knew. Dennis Degan and Joel Spector lead the way as Gady Reinhold, Ron Simon and I looked and listened. Dennis […]
New York Islanders Hockey: Behind The Scenes Very good video and even goes into depth on the back and forth communications between the announcers and the truck. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJF-gBw2gk0 In this very special behind the scenes piece, you see just how the Islanders broadcast gets on to television each night. Features Deb Placey as the […]
Dumont Electronicam TV-Film System The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same. For instance, all the late night shows, be it Leno, Letterman, Conan or Fallon all have something in common with the way ‘The Honeymooners’ was done…individual recordings from each camera that allows for post editing to get the best […]
July 10, 1962: Telstar, The First Communications Satellite What now seems common, was anything but, when Telstar went into orbit. Launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962, Telstar 1 was the first privately-sponsored space launch. A medium-altitude satellite, Telstar was placed in an elliptical orbit completed once every […]
Any of those cams still exist?
i wonder what that thing weighs ???
I believe it’s actually Lenox.
I can never understand why they made an optical finder instead of a crt.