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.
His Master’s Voice… Here’s a rare moment…Johnny Carson as a guest on David Letterman’s show in 1985. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehruIvKoXs Johnny making an appearance on Letterman Show in Burbank CA @ NBC Studios Source
Mitzi Gaynor…Headline Act For Beatles Miami Show Tells All This is a wonderful five minute clip of Mitzi talking about her appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ on February 16 which would be the Beatles second time on the show. In an earlier post, I mentioned the heat in the Deauville Hotel’s ballroom and how […]
February 9, 1953…The REAL Beginning Of ABC! That was the day United Paramount, led by Leonard Goldenson, came to the rescue and saved the company from bankruptcy. On October 12, 1943, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, the Rexall drugstore chain, and the radio station WMCA in New York, bought NBC’s Blue […]
NBC Studio 6A, Circa 1943…New Photos Just In Thanks to Alec Cumming, here are three new unwatermarked photos of NBC Radio Studio 6A just after it was built. As I mentioned yesterday in the 6B stories, 6A is a mirror image of B, with the on stage control room, observation deck window and twin double […]
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