A Rare Surviving Technicolor Camera
There were never many of these…I think no more than 30 or so world wide and some of those were rebuilt for other color processes. This camera is in the collection of my friend Carey Williams in Chicago and is valued around $50,000. It is known to have been used on ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ and possibly ‘Gone With The Wind’.
Fans Of Animation Will Love This Page! Rare Early Cartoons… The link will take you to a Library Of Congress page that features restored early animation. Here, you can see some of the first claymation stop motion, the first rotoscope films of Max Fleischer’s ‘Koko The Clown’ which combines live action and animation, and more. […]
THIS Is Where Late Night Television Starts… The man circled in this photo is Don “Creesh” Hornsby. NBC’s Pat Weaver choose Hornsby to host network television’s first late night show called ‘Broadway Open House’. In the book “Fight for Tonight,” by Ronald L. Smith, he writes: “Hornsby was the ‘wild and crazy’ man of his […]
UPDATED March 3, 2023: Around 2010, I found a photo of an odd looking NBC camera in use in 1947. Not knowing what else to do, I passed around a picture to a group of what I consider REAL experts. There was a lot of discussion but finally Ed Reitan, who has the great Early […]
No Doubt About It. What we have here in Studio 33 at Television City are Sony EFP (Electronic Field Production) kits. The cameras are most likely Sony 1500 HDs. They are using the Sony Large Viewfinder Adapter build up kit, model HDLA1507US. For more on the technology, go to the link. Thanks to Father Bob […]
I don’t care how many megapixels, or extended color space it’s got. Digital processes simply can’t touch the images that came from these cameras.
Nope Stephen, that’s how big the camera is. What you may be thinking of is the ‘blimp’ that’s often seen installed around the camera. It encloses the entire system to deaden the noisy mechanism of the camera. The ‘blimp’ is enormous.
The original 3-strip Technicolor required a ton of lighting. The film was rated at ASA 5 !