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 manually. The camera is an RCA TK10.
Marconi Mark VII Color This is from a 1975 tennis match near Boston. It’s the only time I’ve ever seen a Mark VII with a lens other than it’s regular Angenieux lens compliment. These were great cameras and I’m glad to have one on display. Mine spent most of it’s days on Sesame Street. Source
Here are about 16 images from Georgia’s first TV station, WSB-TV in Atlanta, showing their RCA TK30s at work. The station signed on September 29, 1948 and use the TK30 till around 1954, when a few TK11s were added. In the early ’60s, WSB went to the RCA TK60s, then got the first delivered TK42s. […]
At the link below are hundreds of photos, research papers and even two videos (NBC’s First 50 Years) that have been curated to the pages of The Hagley Digital Archives site. Most of what is here is from the David Sarnoff Library collection that no longer has a physical home, but does have a virtual […]
Just For Fun…A 1951 Christmas Card Gag With all the ABC mentions today and the shot of KECA’s first cameraman (Bob King) last week, I thought you would like to see this. I don’t think this is King, but it is one of the first few cameramen there. I love the made up name, Elwood […]
…it’s really wild to see how ABC took many of their TK-10’s and painted them white ! !
What’s the box under the tripod?
Motorola two-way radio.
When LBJ’s daughter got married in the Rose Garden, ABC painted all the lights white.
The box is a Motorola radio. I have a white TK 30 from KGO tv in my collection. It is restored and works. It is the first camera I ever ran in high school! We used the KGO truck to televise our college baseball game. I ran low center home.
Also, note the heat lamp…
Yes I do. And I have met Peaches. Thanks for the memory!