Philo Farnsworth, Mountable Camera 1
This is Philo’s first camera capable of being mounted on a tripod. With an old, still camera as a model, we’ve graduated from wooden boxes to a more manageable style. This is probably from 1931.
November 15, 1926…The First NBC Radio Broadcast, Part 3 The “Color” Networks…Red, Blue, White, Gold And Orange If you thought there was just Red and Blue, think again, but these didn’t all occur on November 15, 1926. In the beginning, NBC operated two networks: NBC Blue, headed by station WJZ, and NBC Red, headed by […]
One Side Up…Three More To Go At 30 Rock In September the old GE signs at 30 Rock finally came down. Thanks to our friend Alan Coffield, here’s a picture of one side of the building’s new top hat, complete with a peacock logo. Both the north and south sides get this treatment and the […]
Mouseketeer Meets Mack The Knife! Thanks to our friend John Bolin, here’s a unique photo taken at KECA (now KABC) showing Annette Funicello and Bobby Darin doing what so many of us did as kids…playing ‘television’. The camera is a red and white RCA TK30. Source
To Sports Fans, This Set Should Look Familiar…CBS Studio 43 On Saturdays and Sundays during football season, this is ground zero for the CBS Television Network’s sports coverage. I make that distinction because next door, in Studio 44 is the CBS Sports Network cable channel’s headquarters set. This set in use year round for all […]