1955: NBC Burbank
This is the control console for an RCA TK41. The camera control unit is on the left and the colorplexer on the right with the double rows of red, blue and green knobs. You need one of these consoles for each TK41. So many knobs, so little time.
ULTRA RARE! JFK, Huntley-Brinkley Interview In The Oval Office Above are videotape outtakes, from what would be President Kennedy’s last interview on NBC. The date is September 9, 1963, and these rare behind the scenes photos were taken by long time NBC/WRC-TV production manager, Bill Wells, and are made available to us by his friend, […]
Thursday Night Shows Fall 1959, ABC CBS NBC Included here are show intro clips from The Gail Storm Show, Donna Reed Show, Real McCoy’s, Pat Boone Show, Untouchables, Take A Good Look with Ernie Kovaks, To Tell The Truth, Betty Hutton Show, Johnny Ringo, Zane Grey Theater, Playhouse 90, Law Of The Plainsman, Bat Masterson, […]
TeleTales #16…The Rube Goldberg Magic Of Busby Berkely At the 48 second mark in this video you’ll see this contraption on the big screen in the “By A Waterfall” scene of “Foot Light Parade” from 1933 staring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. If you start about 3 minutes earlier, you will see some of what […]
January 1, 1954 marked several color television “firsts”…it was the first time the new NBC color trucks were used. It was the first west to east color broadcast to be nationally televised and of course, it was the first color broadcast of The Rose Parade. The two new color remote trucks were ready in December […]
The thing on the far left is a drop in RCA BW pix monitor and A scope. They were used in far more than just camera chains. I thought at first that the scope on top was a vector scope, but it seems to also be displaying a wave form.
Where were the registration controls on a 40/41? Were they in the camera head or remote? Why would an NTSC encoder require all those RGB knobs?
Do any of them go to 11? Awesome photo!
Notice also they are using home consoles for the color monitors.
Being a shader has only become harder. Having done vision control for 20 years, I can only say that the number of cameras on a production have grown exponentially with VTs, but shaders nowadays have 3,4,5 or even 6 cameras to shader! I am of course talking about outside broadcast.
Actually, the panel on the right was for a TK 40. When they came out with the 41, the controls were placed below the monitor and in the desk area.