Fascinating Photo! The Iconoscope Tube In Action…
Here is the heart of early electronic television cameras. This photo, taken by Andreas Fininger, shows an image bring projected into the lens, and then displayed on the plate of the Iconoscope tube. You can actually see the scanning beam in process. Thanks to J P Auger in Canada for sending this!
November 9, 1965…The Great Blackout Hits The Northeast On this date, 49 years ago, it was lights out in a big way! Were you there? From Ontario, Canada to Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, and New Jersey, over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles were left without electricity for up […]
The Arrival Of The RCA TK44s In 6B This photo is probably from mid to late 1971. That’s when The Tonight Show gave up it’s TK41s for the TK44s. All the other studios had already converted, but Johnny and Fred De Cordova liked the TK41’s warmth. Most other studios probably had the TK44As, but I […]
Nice Shot NBC Brooklyn Studios Jodie Peeler sent me this recently and as I studied the photo of my favorite cameras in action, I began to try to fix the location. The donut box on the crane mounted TK41 told me this was New York…they were the only NBC crews to do this. CBS New […]
It was always my opinion that CBS only kept the Norelco PC60s at Studio 50 (The Ed Sullivan Theater), for eighteen months or so. Now that is confirmed with this article that appeared on my sixteenth birthday in Broadcasting Magazine. In another Halloween quirk, it was October 31, 1965 when the ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ went […]
Ohhh the marvels of man!
you wouldn’t see the electron beam.
I haven’t seen a picture like this before! Simply amazing!
The image on the plate inside the tube should be inverted, assuming it is a live subject in the photo.
The iconoscope was used in TV cameras and telecines since the 2nd mid of the 30’s until the 50’s, that’s right?
And Were those not Magnetic deflection? I am not sure if the small device would make the whole Yoke? My guess is a mock up demonstaion Photo With the sort of Air Brushing that RCA Publicity photos were famous for.
I started in Tv in ’53 and we were still using them.
If it were today, people would be shouting “Photoshop”. This is obviously a publicity shot. The electron beam is usually invisible – and in a vacuum, the picture should be upside down. There are hotspots from the studio lights, the picture is beautifully lit – a technique that Andreas Fininger excelled at.