How Hot Is It? Pretty Hot!
It’s not often that you see a TK11 opened up like this, but this one on the set of Art Linkletter’s House Party at Television City needs to breathe. Unlike cameras at the local stations, network cameras work for hours on end in rehearsals and in production and the heat from the tubes caused setting to drift and viewfinders to go blank.
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 […]
Camera Rarities 1, Of 3…First NBC Tests Of The RCA TK30? Thanks to Tom Buckley, here is a very rare photo, that I think was taken in the two week period between June 5 and June 18, 1946. On June 19, 1946, NBC’s broadcast of the Joe Lewis-Billy Conn rematch at Yankee Stadium, was the […]
Soupy Sales: 1964 WNEW Even though WNEW was the old Dumont owned WABD, it’s still odd to see these old Dumont cameras in use on the ‘new’ Soupy show. The show started in Detroit at WXYZ in ’53 and began to air on ABC in 59. In ’60 Sales moved to KABC and after ABC […]
TeleTales #91…Television’s First “Live Animated” Commercial? Take a close look at these three amazing photos from early 1947. Live from NBC Studio 3H, we see a Bulova Watch commercial board with a Rube Goldberg type scene with gears and gizmos that move when cranked from behind. Notice at the top, the scroll window for copy […]
What’s that rig on the front of the camera? Some kind of prompter?
…nope ! ..that’s the hinged cover for the viewfinder section of the camera ..I never worked one but I know there were two sections of this camera and the top viewfinder section was detachable.
I’ve seen a lot of shots aired where it looked like the viewfinder was blank!
Great view of the custom viewfinder hoods that they did at CBS TVC.
great old photo.. kids in the video age have no idea th epioneers paved for them
Bob Stone in his younger daze