Among The First!
These ladies are among the first to ever see themselves on Television. As part of the 1939 World’s Fair exhibition, RCA fed video and audio from this podium for most of the summer. The lines were long, and those ‘televised’ were given a certificate with the date and the place.
Technically Speaking…The Dumont 124 IO Camera Finally! Thanks to 51 year TV veteran Bill Freiberg of KTRK in Houston TX, who started with Dumont equipment, we finally know some of secrets that had been lost for so long on these cameras. Below is his letter to me and a photo of a Dumont 124B in […]
And Away We Go! Jackie Gleason’s last show from his longtime home at CBS Studio 50 in New York, aired May 23, 1964. After the summer break, the show debuted from The Miami Beach Convention Center on September 26. Below is a photo of Jackie and well known gossip columnist Hedda Hopper on the train […]
Bob Hope’s First Every Color Special…Christmas 1965 Even though NBC had wanted him to do color shows earlier, Hope resisted because he was not only the star…he was the producer too, and color had higher production costs. This special with Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Janet Leigh and Nancy Wilson was shot in Studio 1 at […]
Gemini 5, NBC Operations Coordination Plan: August 1965 This is a fascinating look at what it took to make it all happen. At NBC, 8H was ground zero and all of the NASA and pool feeds came in here via AT&T. Take a look at all of the locations ABC and CBS are pooling from. […]
My Mom attended as an 11 year old girl.
Check out the boat in the background!