Classic! ‘Sammy Davis Jr. Show’ With TK41s
From NBC Brooklyn, here’s a clip from April 26, 1966 that opens with Sammy in front of a crane mounted RCA TK41. Behind the camera is NBC veteran Frank Gaeta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXjKNl0C-AU
from April 22, 1966. thanks to fromthesidelines and wmbrown6 for the great comments and info on this clip.
Be sure to click through these historic images, as I have made extensive comments on each of them, and each image holds a secret of its own. These screenshots are from a rare early kinescope believed to have been shot on April 6, 1948, and would be perhaps the very first moving image of the […]
EMI, The Start Of Something Big… Below is an EMI 203 Image Orthicon camera from 1960, but broadcast was just one area EMI was involved in. Here’s a short course on their history. Electric and Musical Industries Ltd was formed in March 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company, […]
BBC’s Early Video Tape Experiments… This is very much like the RCA test model built in 1950. I think both systems used 1/2 inch tape but they moved at 200 inches per second and could only record 15 minutes of programming, even though the reels were huge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f1GDQDB0Ss Early video tape machine developed by the […]
Welcome To “Mary Richards” Apartment! At first glance, this looks like it could be the ‘I Love Lucy’ set as sitcom production is still done basically the same way with the same studio and live audience layouts. ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ was done at CBS Studio Center on Radford Avenue in LA from 1970 […]
How many people, like me, thought Christmas had come if we actually got to see a TV camera on a show?
Always enjoyed the credits!
Of course, William B. Williams was the WNEW-AM New York DJ who gave the nickname “Chairman of the Board” to his friend Frank Sinatra, so he was probably tight with all the other members of The Clan (Frank hated the name Rat Pack, btw). Thus, he gets to provide a VO, including a credit for himself, that any NBC staffer could have delivered
Pretty special … Oh those early days of Broadcast TV…
I’m looking at the TK41’s camera cable or is it cables?
Notable credits: Buz Kohan, writer of many memorable music/variety shows and Walter Miller, TD. Wondering if this is Walter C. Miller?