One Of A Kind Photo
This is the full complement of equipment associated with the RCA “Walkie Lookie” Vidicon camera. This photo from the 1956 NAB Convention, shows the wireless version with the backpack transmitter on the table. This camera and a few others like this were used by NBC for the ’52 political conventions, but those did not have the wireless capability like the 1956 version. These units were able to operate almost a mile from their base station.
Goodby Center Theater…Hello US Rubber Building In 1950, The Center Theater became an NBC television theater and was heavily used till it closed and was demolished in 1954 to allow US Rubber to expand their Rockefeller Center offices. Thanks to Jodie Peeler, here are couple of interesting photos from 1959 that show the new 19 […]
Thanks to the fabulous RCA TK41s and NBC Burbank crew, here are 2 GREAT back to back Andy Williams Christmas songs. Even as degraded as the online video is, look how brilliant the color and sharp the image! Remember, a lot of this is done with big Houston Fearless 30B cranes and sound booms flying […]
Ultra Rare! The 1st Christmas Song Ever Recorded…Jingle Bells, 1898 We’ll get to how J. S. Peirpont came to write the song in Savannah, Georgia in a moment, but first a note on the recording. As noted in the video, a banjo player named Will Lyle made an instrumental version in 1889, but this 1898 […]
NBC’s ‘All Star Review’ In the post just before this, Jackie Gleason mentioned in a letter to Eddie Brinkmann that they “had their competition at NBC on the run”. Jackie’s competition for his first season at CBS was NBC’s ‘All Star Revue’. A rare full episode is here for you to watch. Notice at the […]
Fantastic!
and now the wristwatch cam…
Makes me think of Al Franken back when he was funny.
The radar receiving dish made me laugh. That’s one of the most stereotypical looking radar dishes I’ve seen
A lot of gear to keep running…
I remember the SNL ‘Russian Mini-Cam’ bit. The camera was the size of a small fridge.
I think I stopped at this booth at CCW in NY yesterday. In this case, 4K refers to its weight and not resolution.
would you believe what’s old is new again? a Arri Alexa with the break-out head feeding back to a backpack carrying the brain, batts & a boxx HD transmitter….
It just hit me how small the venue looks for the ’52 NAB convention.
It’s smaller now than I first saw it in the 90s, but that pic sure wasn’t at the LV Convention center.
Come to think of it, the Conv. Ctr. probably didn’t exist back then.
You’re correct, Jodie. My mistake.