Marconi Mark IVs and RCA TK60s In Action!
From Jerry Lewis’s ‘The Patsy’ from 1964, this clip captures two great TV studio scenes. The first shows the Marconis in action and the second shows the TK60. Had the camera uses been reversed, it would have been correct as Sullivan never had TK60s, but did have Marconi Mark IVs. Since KTLA was owned by Paramount at the time, the Marconi cameras were theirs and that scene was probably shot there.[fb_vid id=”10200462085660828″]
‘The Match Game’, NBC Studio 8H…Photo 2 of 5 Behind the cameras, (L-R) BJ Bjorkman and Art Graham. The small vertical panel on the camera door, just in front of the exhaust port, suggests these are RCA TK41B models which would be the first with a single cable. The TK40, TK41 and TK41A models all […]
Insider’s History of The Hollywood Palace Thanks to ABC Hollywood veteran Don McCroskey, here’s a look behind the curtain of a place many of us remember as The Hollywood Palace. ABC started doing shows from what was then called the El Capitan theater in the fall of 1957 using equipment installed by NBC in 1950 […]
TeleTales #91…Television’s First “Live Animated” Commercial? Take a close look at these three amazing photos from early 1947. Live from NBC Studio 3H, we see a Bulova Watch commercial board with a Rube Goldberg type scene with gears and gizmos that move when cranked from behind. Notice at the top, the scroll window for copy […]
TeleTales #86…The First Televised Oscars And “Gown Trip” The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 19, 1953. It took place at the RKO Pantages Theater in Hollywood and at the NBC International Theater in New York. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised, and the first ceremony to be held […]
Made even ginchier with a Lloyd Thaxton cameo!
Cameras also featured in “The Ladies Man”, an entire OB is set up on camera, including an OB van…
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Inquiring minds want to know. Good job as usual.
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