RCA Wireless Mini Camera: 1956
In a publicity photo for 1956 convention coverage, NBC’s Chet Huntley poses with the “Walkie-Lookie” camera, a miniature wireless vidicon camera designed for coverage of the 1952 political conventions.
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En costard semblable il serait parfait pour venir couvrir l’Impact sur le terrain!
I wonder the weight of the backpack and its temperature at a time when there were no small lithium batteries and transistors were still coming out of the theory. That little antenna is interesting. Totally Jetsons style
The original one-man-band! 🙂
something tells me Huntley didn’t wear that around during the convention — wonder how it would have looked on Brinkley ?
The antenna has a squirrel excluder on it.
wouldn’t ole Chet Huntley be totally bewildered by the micro-sized equipment we now have which do everything all that bulk he’s wearing once did — and more (in living colour, too)?!!
i also really miss the nightly Huntley-Brinkley News Report, where REAL HARD HITTING journalism was broadcast instead of bubblegum-looking news readers who spew out miandering, unjournalistic pitter-patter in the same vein from those weekly tabloids sold at supermarkets!!!
I miss that man!
This guy invented Live-U??
RF exposure limits were very high back then… lol!