Just For Fun…1944 RCA Television Milestone Ad
I thought you may find this interesting. The cameras in the photo are the pre war Orthicon cameras and this was most likely taken at Madison Square Gardens where RCA sponsored and broadcast several events for servicemen. The USO shows that RCA cosponsored were broadcast for wounded soldiers in the NY area hospitals that were watching on RCA donated receivers. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Apollo Missions Television…The On Board Camera Systems This is a remarkable 45 page article packed with photos many of us have never seen. This is the most in depth report on all of the television apparatus used on the Apollo Moon missions that you will find anywhere. I was fortunate to stumble across this while […]
Soupy Sales Famous ‘Stripper Surprise’ Backstory Let me let you in on a little secret. Lunch with Soupy Sales, Detroit’s most popular TV kid’s show, wasn’t really a kid’s show at all. Oh sure, Soupy always reminded the kiddies to take their vitaminnies and eat Silvercup Bread, “the best bread in Dee-troit,” but the show […]
CBS Uses Thomson Cameras…1985 NCAA Championships Yesterday, veteran cameraman Kevin Vahey mentioned in a note his surprise to see CBS using Thomson cameras on a remote in 1977 in Los Angeles. Kevin wondered if that was just an LA truck or if there was more to it. I think there was more to it and […]
EXCLUSIVE ULTRA RARITY! NBC 3rd Floor 1933 Configuration For once and for all, this will put to rest any doubts on the history of the conversion of NBC Studio 3H to 3K. Until yesterday, when I received this drawing of the original 1933 radio studio configuration, there had never been a reliable floor plan available […]
Image orthicon tubes were developed circa 1942, but until 1946 these devices were produced exclusively for military applications…