1913: State Of The Art Sports Reporting
Check out these two long rows of telegraph operators and reporters. That’s how the 1913 World Series was covered from The Polo Grounds in NYC. The series pitted the New York Giants against the Philadelphia Athletics.
(NY Giants became the SF Giants in 1957)
Picture Parade #4…The World’s First Practical Tape Recorder Here are two prototype models of the AEG Magnetophone which was developed in Germany in the early 1930s. This is the K1 model which soon came down to a more manageable size. Captured Nazi machines were sent back to the US and was what Ampex based it’s […]
Beatles 50th Sullivan Anniversary Count Down…4 Days Notice the lady in the glasses behind George Harrison…that is Barbara Forster. At the time, she was Barbra Smith, secretary to Ed’s son in law, and producer Bob Precht. Here’s an interesting story she told me Sunday. Only two production secretaries traveled to Miami for the second Beatles […]
Mystery Solved #1 The First Ikegami Studio Camera Without a doubt, this is the first professional studio camera from Ikegami. The camera with the big box zoom lens is the Ikegami TK 301A. I had searched and searched for a photo, but all I could find was a tiny thumbnail size. When I blew it […]
More Design Influence From John Vassos Even here, on this early RCA Mobile Unit, his style is present. The art decco chrome bands on the side and mudflaps are a Vassos touch. This 1947 shot from Times Square has a couple of TK30s on top of one of RCA’s first few remote trucks that were […]
morse coding an entire baseball game would suck. The middle chap seems happy however.