CLASSIC NASA!
This CBS PC60 is ready for lift off. This is probably around 1967 or ’68 and we are either near the end of Gemini missions or at the start of the Apollo missions. If the top looks odd, it’s because the door on the far side of the camera is open. Notice the custom tilt head which allows the camera to shoot almost straight up. Great days these were! Thanks to John Bisney in Bethesda MD for the photo.
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your day, but take a close look at that turkey…it may be an old friend. All my best to you and your family. Bobby Ellerbee Happy Thanksgiving from Nathan Love & NBC. Client: NBC Artworks Animation Studio: Nathan Love Director: Nathan Love Creative Director: Joe Burrascano Art Dir… Source
The One And Only…NBC Camera Limousine I’ve shown you this car before, but thanks to Troy Walters in Australia, here’s another look at it from a magazine of the day. http://coldwar-c4i.net/TV/EE0353-276.html Television Mobile Unit for 1953 Presidential Inaugural Parade Mobile TV Unit for 1953 Inaugural Parade Source
General Electric looks to the postwar years in this 1944 catalog. [pdf-embedder url=”https://staging.eyesofageneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GE-Television-Broadcast-Equipment-1944-LIB-pd.pdf”]
This one caught me off guard too. Before the world knew the Muppets as a global phenomenon, Jim Henson and his small crew were grinding away on a local kids’ show in Washington, D.C. From 1955 to 1961. They were on WRC‑TV, doing inventive, scrappy work that hinted at what was coming — but nobody […]
seguro que si…repare muchas en el canal 11
Dig those cars too!
Norelco PC-70 la 60 es vieja…..usaba dos cables de camara como de dos pulgadas,,jajajajajaja
Would the camera setups for a Gemini launch be that close to the VAB? I’m going to guess Apollo coverage.
Weird how back then those cars were nothing special. Just a regular prius.
That tilt head looks like one I working at NASA Dryden in the 90s. A beast to mount, but yes, really handy to tilt nearly straight up.
The press site is just across the access road from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) where the Apollo Saturn 5 was stacked and later the Space Shuttles. Right next to the VAB is the Launch Control Building. I am at a loss as to why the camera platform is here as opposite to across the road at the press site where the view of the launch would be better. It may be this was also to cover the Saturn roll ot to the pad or something occuring near launch control which the camera could be pointing towards. Also the parking lot is nearly empty, which was not my experience on a launch day or during roll out.
This would be for a Saturn rocket launch. Definitely Apollo.
Whoever designed the “CBS COLOR” logo did an awesome job!
This would have been for either Apollo 4 or 6 which were unmanned Saturn v test flights
love thses classic nasa series
the norelco cameras actually look smaller in photos than it was , compare the body of the camera and the body of the cameraman