Ampex VRX 1000: First Videotape Recorder
The Ampex VRX-1000 (later renamed the Mark IV) was introduced on March 14, 1956, at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters in Chicago. This is the world’s first practical videotape recorder and is hailed as a major technological breakthrough. In this photo, CBS goes on air with the first videotape delayed broadcast, Douglas Edwards and The News, on November 30, 1956, from Television City.
Republican National Convention: 1940 This is an RCA Iconoscope camera from experimental station W3XE (now KYW) covering the RNC in Philadelphia for NBC in June of 1940, where Wendell Willkie was chosen to run against FDR. The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is one of the world’s oldest television stations. It began in 1932 as […]
December 30, 1963…’Let’s Make A Deal’ Debuts On NBC Here is the pilot, complete with a TK41 in the foreground of the intro shot at NBC Burbank May 25, 1963. The original edition of the show was a daytime series that ran on NBC, but moved to ABC in 1968 where it ran until 1976. […]
YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS, But It’s TRUE! Amazingly, I have just received an entirely new set of 30 photos from the NBC 8H Apollo 8 set, TAKEN AT THE SAME TIME as Bob Batsche was taking his! Tom McKeever’s photo of the elapsed time clock is on the bottom…Bob Batsche’s photo is on the […]
CBS Studios…Before And After The Broadcast Center Opened CBS purchased the Sheffield Farms dairy depot in 1952 and for many years, it was used mostly for scenery and storage. In the early 60s, it was known as the Production Center as many of CBS’s shows had offices here, like Ed Sullivan. In early 64 work […]
Now you can record better video on your phone.
And edit in HD from phone. Think I still have one of those in the garage.
And now we can shoot video with a phone that’s about the size of a deck of cards. I need to show this picture to my kids and watch their jaws drop.
Some say the guy on the phone is calling Ampex in case of trouble!
Worked on many of them…