The Ampex Senior Class…1956 – 1961
This 1961 ad from Ampex shows the first six videotape machine models they made…machines that changed the world. Here’s the lineup from left to right: 1956, the VRX 1000…1957, the VR 1000…1959, the VR 1000B…1960, the VR 1001A…1961, the VR 1000C and also from 1961, the VR 1002. Enjoy and share!
The Wildest Camera Hustle You Have EVER SEEN! Just in case you missed it, here’s ‘Tonight’ camera man Kurt Decker handling his pedestal camera like a jitterbug partner! The action starts as 1:09 and is frankly, amazing. This was posted in the comment section on the earlier story on Kurt. Thanks to Andy Rose for […]
May 12, 1963…Bob Dylan, Ed Sullivan & The Koch Brothers? Yep! After seeing this photo, many swear they remember seeing Bob Dylan on the Sullivan show, but it never happened…it almost did though. In May of 1963, Bob Dylan was still an aspiring young musician who was preparing for the release of his second album […]
This is the history of football on television as told by some of the greatest ever producers and directors including Chet Forte, Roone Arledge, Ted Nathanson, Drew Esocoff, Tony Verna, Doug Wilson, Joe Acenti, Bob Fishman and Mike Arnold. This is a must read article written by David Davis for The Director’s Guild Of America’s […]
On February 5, 1967, the Smothers Brothers debuted on CBS and went head to head with the Cartwright brothers on NBC’s Sunday night ratings giant “Bonanza”. To everyone’s (even CBS’s) amazement, in less than a month, they had taken the ratings lead! “The rest” as they say, “is history”…but it was a history that was as […]
WUNC-Tv used the
1000-C I think. A one minute roll cue to air or edit ….
Maybe 30 sec.
Heck I’m just a camera guy running an RCA TK-11
5-second roll on our VR-1000; 8-second roll on our RCA TP-16D; half-second roll on our GPLs and our Eastman.
i would go back to master control and just be amazed !