Angenieux Evershed Lens
This is the ‘box zoom’ lens made by Angenieux but it was very rare to see one of these in the US. The Rank-Taylor-Hobson zoom lenses were more common here on RCA cameras, but occasionally you saw one, as on the WDAF camera in the photo just before this.
A Rare Sighting…The GE PC 25 Color Camera There were not many of these cameras made and I think the total ever built was twenty four. This shot is from WFAA in Dallas with DJ Ron Chapman hosting a local dance show. KGBT in Harlingen, Texas had them too. Although GE broadcast equipment was built […]
Measure Twice, Cut Once Director of photography Karl Freund has his back to us as an assistant pulls a tape on Desi Arnaz in the living room set of ‘I Love Lucy’. The action in each weekly episode takes place on three basic sets erected more or less permanently on Stage 2 at General Services […]
June 8, 1939…The First Orthicon Camera On this day in 1938, two experimental RCA Orthicon cameras were put into service along side two RCA Iconoscope cameras at Ebbets field for a daytime game between the Dodgers and the Reds. This was televisions first ever broadcast of a major league baseball game and was only a […]
This is part of the original 26 minute RCA presentation from 1956 that pitches color to the public. The full length version is linked below, but this it the good part if you (like me) love TK41s. It is such a rare occasion to see the great giants in action, that I thought it would […]
Chris,i think it has the function off a sunshade.