Marconi Mark VII Color
This is from a 1975 tennis match near Boston. It’s the only time I’ve ever seen a Mark VII with a lens other than it’s regular Angenieux lens compliment. These were great cameras and I’m glad to have one on display. Mine spent most of it’s days on Sesame Street.
This show was network television’s first rehearsed, non-reality program. It was a one hour variety/sketch comedy show hosted by Helen Parrish. Parrish had been a child film star and she became the first popular TV star. With the lessons learned and a new host and sponsor, NBC would bring this show back in 1948 in […]
A Leisurely Stroll Down Memory Lane…WBOC, Circa 1964 This video will start at the beginning of the television studios tour, but for engineering and radio fans, the tour starts at the transmitters and radio studios just before this. WBOC is in Salisbury, Maryland and this twenty minute video has a very generous helping of RCA […]
One of the leaders of Bell Labs had an idea of how to show the black and white movies of those days in color. This idea seems to be a lot like what we finally got in electronic color TV, with the use of mirrors and color filters. [wp-booklet id=39871]
Dinah Shore With The Colonial Theater’s RCA TK40s…1957 Continuing on the theme from the previous post of Peter Katz photo from The Colonial Theater, here is Dinah Shore with these rare cameras. [evp_embed_video url=”http://CDN.eyesofageneration.com/Content/Daily_Posts/2014/p6092014dinahtk40edit.mp4″ preload=”none” template=”mediaelement”] Notice the first camera we see had no vents on the viewfinder. This was how the first RCA TK40s […]
CBS also used Marconi ?
Yes they did Alex, the b/w Mark IV and the color Mark VIIs.