TeleTales #47…You’ve Come A Long Way Baby! Given all of the Super Bowl coverage, I thought a look back at 1960 state of the art mobile production was in order. This is the new RCA twin truck unit recently purchased by Los Angeles based Glenn-Armistead Productions. The production truck (bottom) carried 4 RCA TK11/31 black […]
RCA TK30 ‘Gun site’ This is a screen capture from an introductory article on the RCA TK30 from RCA Broadcast News in 1946. Here we have an explanation of the mysterious gun sight that attached to the top of the viewfinder hood. I think there were two types…this one with a polarized lens and a […]
Joey Bishop Show: Vine Street Theater At the top of the video, you can see a couple of the GE PE 350 cameras on the set. In ‘Recent Posts By Others’ there is another short clip from this same episode that has a quick glimpse of the cameras. If you watch the rest of this, […]
NBC Introduces Kinescope Recording…June 1948 Press Release The Kinescope dominated TV recording for time delay in the early 1950’s. A Kinescope recorder was basically a special 16mm or 35mm film camera mounted in a large box aimed at a high quality monochrome video CRT. All things considered the Kinescope made high quality and respectable TV […]