Finally!
I’ve wondered for years what this pedestal is and now I know…it’s a Canon MC 300 and it was made in Japan. I never knew Canon made television equipment other than lenses. I think it is like the Vinten Fulmar in that it has 2 telescoping columns under the brake ring. A lot of these were in use in Japan, Asia and Australia.
Preparing Studio 6B For The Return Of The Tonight Show (B) Several months back, Jimmy Fallon moved to 6A so that crews could do a major overhaul of 6B before the ‘Tonight Show’ moved back to New York. For many years, the column you see in the photo on the right had been a problem. […]
[evp_embed_video url=”http://CDN.eyesofageneration.com/Content/Daily_Posts/2016/p141016carsonmarx.mp4″ preload=”none” template=”mediaelement”] At the video clip above is the audio of the first 3 minutes of the debut show with Groucho Marx introducing Johnny. The video of those first three minutes has been lost but below, we have the next best thing…rare pictures from that night! Groucho, among a long list of other […]
SNL Rarities…Jim Henson’s Notes From The Debut Show It’s a little surprising and most don’t know that The Muppets were a part of SNL that first year, but they were and I guess the exposure paid off as they left the next year to start their own show. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee Source
50 Years From CBS Television City…Part 3, The Variety Shows The Variety Show segment has two parts and this is the link to the second part. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShnIw82D5js Tom and Dick Smothers are the hosts of this segment and we start with their great show with a rundown of their production week which puts them in […]
I doubt Canon actually made this—this is probably a Shotoku product. Specifically, this appears to be their TP-63:
http://www.shotoku.co.jp/en/broadcast/index.php?module=Broadcast&action=productDetail&product_id=17
Similar to the way RCA and GE branded the Houston-Fearless peds they sold with their cameras. I do remember that particular Shotoku cam head was a dreadful hunk of machinery.
I worked for Canonfrom 1975 to about 1980 and did some repairing on broadcast lenses, but mainly still camera lenses. Many of the lenses that were used at Lake Placid went though the shop there and were checked out before Olympic TV duty. It was my job at Canon that helped me land a position in Television in Chicago.