Color Comes To Japan: 1957
On Sunday, I had a story about Expo ’58 and the RCA color exhibit at the Brussels’ World’s Fair. In it, I also mentioned that RCA had sent a mobile color unit to Japan in 1957 to give them a first look at color television and here is the other part of that story. The Japanese were impressed and within a year of the visit, these 5 RCA TK41s arrived at Nippon Broadcasting.
Macy’s Parade Television History Below is a shot from 1954 showing NBC’s new Chime logo on a TK30. If you look closely at the viewfinder, you will see that the WNBT call letters have been removed and as of yet have not been replaced with the new (October 18, 1954) WRCA call letters. More than […]
Famous Cartoon Voice Actors In Live Action Films: Part 5 of 5 As a cartoon voice actor myself, I find it fascinating to see what the people behind the characters look like, and hope you will too. Bob Bruce Frequent narrator in WB Cartoons in the 40s Howard McNear character actor Flintstones and Floyd the […]
Beatles 50th Sullivan Anniversary Count Down…12 Days Here’s the HUGE SURPRISE I promised yesterday! Who knew that CBS had sent one of their early hand held video cameras to Miami to get shots for the February 16, 1964 ‘Ed Sullivan Show’? I just found this awesome photo a few days ago and it is the […]
We will see three different Iconoscope cameras here…the first three all electronic cameras made by RCA at their Camden N.J. labs. These images are from the David Sarnoff Library Collection and are quite rare these days. The first we’ll see will be the prototype camera developed by Dr. Zworykin around 1932. The second is a […]
Jock, I thought that THEY would’ve invented it!!!
No, they just copied it.
And now they make all of the HD cameras.
very interesting!
There are two(?) TK41s in the NHK Museum in Tokyo. Toshiba, an RCA licensee, made an advanced version of the TK-41 in the mid 60s, described in the SMPTE Journal.