Short Clip: Cameraman Dave Dorsette’s Interns
FYI, Dave retired a year or so again after 35 years at CBS but is back from time to time. Go Get Em Dave!
Karen’s a summer intern for Dave, the Cameraman
The Beautiful RCA TK11 I think this is one of the best looking cameras ever made. This is Home Ec class from the University of North Carolina’s WUNC. The TK11 is mounted on a Houston Fearless friction head and a Houston Fearless TD 3 counterbalance pedestal. Source
KTLA: First In The West Originally owned by Paramount Pictures subsidiary Television Productions, Inc., and located on the Paramount Studios lot, the station was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1939 as experimental station W6XYZ, on channel 4, but did not go on the air until September 1942. Klaus Landsberg (below left), already an […]
Putting A Face To A Famous Voice…The Telephone Company Lady Long before all the new computer voice sequencing programs came along, there was a lady named Jane Barbie making recordings for AT&T and The Bell Systems whose voice we have all heard a million times. Thanks to Dick Clark, we get to meet her. Enjoy […]
Heavy Metal Flashback: 1971 With football and TK41s on my mind, I thought this would be an excellent time for a second visit to Texas Tech with ABC! Enjoy! Amazingly, till now, there are only 5 or 6 photos of TK41s showing them at football games. In this great 8 photo array, we see the […]
…I recall Letterman having fun w/Dorsett one time and Letterman said to him, ” I’ll slap you on the side like an old TK-42 ! ! ” ..Dorsett got a good laugh out of that !
Who remembers the slapping the viewfinder technique?
Impact maintenance.