This TK41 Is A Killer!
About 10 days ago, I posted a TK41 from MGM’s prop department asking you if it was “Live Or Memorex”. Thanks to our friend Mike Clark, we can see that camera in action shooting more than just pictures! For an episode of ‘The Girl From U.N.C.L.E,’ guest star Peggy Lee plays a villain who has a TK41 modified into a machine gun (turret?) to be used against U.N.C.L.E. agents April Dancer and Mark Slate.
NBC’s Color Girl Last week we touched on the color camera development at The Colonial Theater in NYC, but before that, there was experimental color testing from Studio 3H at 30 Rock with the experimental ‘coffin’ cameras. There was experimental color from the Washington DC Windham Hotel studios, but no “color girl”. Marie was hired in […]
An Updated Report On My Night At SNL…May 3, 2014 I’m re-posting my report from the next morning with some updates and added comments. New: I originally only mentioned this is passing, but I was fortunate enough to spend six hours in 8H on Friday afternoon watching rehearsals. I had come directly from a two […]
Ever See One Of These? This Is The GE PE 25 Color Camera There are not many photos of this camera, but thanks to David Crosthwait at DC Video, we have a new black and white photo taken at KCOP in Los Angeles. The color photo (the only one we know of) shows our friend […]
Leo And Jackie In 1965, ABC provided the first-ever nationwide baseball coverage with weekly Saturday broadcasts on a regional basis. Each Saturday, ABC would broadcast two 2 p.m. games and one 5 p.m. game for the Pacific Time Zone. Merle Harmon, Chris Schenkel, Keith Jackson, and on occasion, Ken Coleman served as ABC’s principal play-by-play […]
You need that one in your collection!
I’m sure if you asked the RCA engineers, they could deliver this functionality too.
One time I saw a Grass Valley 300 switcher in an editing suite that could trigger a coffee machine to start a brewing cycle.
Off topic, but I still maintain the TCR-100 could be easily re-purposed as a sandwich vending machine.
Herb Edelman is there
Don’t forget that a Grass Switcher can also activate a Death Star.
Al, it wasn’t a Grass, it was an AMPEX switcher 😉
http://www.hattonweeks.com/2011/01/kait-installs-new-digital-production.html