The One And Only…NBC Camera Limousine
I’ve shown you this car before, but thanks to Troy Walters in Australia, here’s another look at it from a magazine of the day.
http://coldwar-c4i.net/TV/EE0353-276.html
Television Mobile Unit for 1953 Presidential Inaugural Parade
Mobile TV Unit for 1953 Inaugural Parade
Double Header: 40 Inch Lens and The Edison Effect Last week this photo was posted by Pierre Seguin and comes from a 1947 edition of Popular Mechanics. It shows a 1945 RCA Orthicon camera with a 40 inch lens, described as the longest ever used at the time. It also mentions that television works only […]
Four Generations Of The Experimental RCA Color Cameras… The 1st generation of RCA’s simultaneous color television system cameras (shown above), is generally referred to as the Wardman Park cameras. They were in NBC’s Wardman Park Hotel studio in Washington DC, but just recently, we have learned that RCA’s called these “The Princeton Cameras” as that […]
Remember ABC’s White Cameras? ABC veteran cameraman Don ‘Peaches’ Langford is pictured here on one of his first assignments in the mid 60s. He’s shooting the top of a ski run from about a mile away, and notice the lens. It’s not a Zoomar…it’s a telescope lens with no zoom and the focus was done […]
SURPRISE #1. If you always thought those were spotlights mounted in the black frame, you (and I) are wrong. They are actually quite the opposite of lights. SURPRISE #2. If you always thought the contraption shooting through the opening was a camera, you (and I) were wrong. It actually quite the opposite of a camera. […]
The microwave link will not work very well without a dish!
I used to own the generator that was in the trunk!
Too long ago to fully remember all the facts. During the NYC School Teachers strike in 1967, I was assigned to either this unit or the Checker. I had a portable camera for coverage of the strike’s settlement announcement. I can’t remember if the camera was color or B&W. From what I recall, there were two of us assigned–one to operate the car’s equipment and I handled the camera with no communication back to the control room–0nly 46 years ago, how time passes us by!
Wasn’t this car used many times for the show “Monitor?”