The Story Of Telstar…The First Communications Satellite
Since we are knee deep in space launches and television’s coverage of them, I thought you would enjoy seeing this 1962 film on how the Bell System, in cooperation with NASA, developed the Telstar satellite, and participated in the launch and the subsequent successful transmission of signals to and from the earth and space.
The One And ONLY…Mel Blanc Often called “The Man Of 1000 Voices”, here Mel admits to David Letterman that he really only has about 400, which by any measure is still stunning. This is one of the best interviews I’ve seen Mel do…they have a lot of fun and many of your favorite characters will […]
October 1, 1955…”The Honeymooners” Debuts On CBS Setting The Record Straight On “The Honeymooners” Above is a great shot of the cast and writers going over a script at Jackie Gleason’s office. Today is the anniversary of The Classic 39 “Honeymooners” episodes done on film for the 1955-56 season on CBS. but the younger generation […]
History’s First Marriage Of Recorded Sight And Sound…Circa 1894 From the inception of motion pictures, various inventors have attempted to unite sight and sound, but Edison did it first. [evp_embed_video url=”http://CDN.eyesofageneration.com/Content/Daily_Posts/2017/p5117edison.mp4″ preload=”none” template=”mediaelement”] The Edison Company is known to have experimented with this as early as the fall of 1894 under the supervision of W. […]
NBC Television’s First “Ingest” Center…Studio 5H In video production, ingest is a relatively new term which simply means to bring a new program or it’s elements into a studio or facility. In December of 1953, NBC completed Studio 5H to do just that. It was a control room into which breaking news stories and remote […]
I remember watching the first transmission…we thought it was so cool!
Only 34″ diameter. Little guy could do a lot for his size.
Visited the earth station site in ’65 while summer camping in Boy Scouts. Next to the JFK assassination, that b&w picture of the tracking dome and flag is forever ingrained.
Wiki states that the giant tracking “cornucopia” horn is no more, but a check shows the Andover site still has a number of dishes, owned by Verizon.
I posted from my phone and thought it was a phone issue. Thanks!
Link no workie . . . .
SORRY! Link seemt to be broken, here it is again. http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/9/14/AT&T-Archives-Telstar
The first video was our National Anthem…re-audio to get rid of the mix-minus (dbl audio) and aired the video at sign on& sign-off at a small market Texas station for a month or so…believe I still have it on 2 inch quad.. Memories…
My father worked on Telstar. In the early 60’s, he took us to an earth station in an inflated bubble in rural Maine.
I am fortunate enough to own a 16mm print of this.