This is a short but sweet video from the Museum Of Broadcast Technology near Boston. Great look at a few of over100 cameras that are on display there in Woonsocket, R.I.
Most of MBT’s cameras and 60+ VTRs will be operative. Tom Sprague, Paul Beck, Jay Ballard and Pete Fasciani have been working on this project for years and the dream is closer than ever to being realized.
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RCA Catalog Cover? Nope! Better… A few months ago, well known Atlanta photographer Parker Smith came to my house and shot my camera collection all day long. This is one of those shots…a beautiful portrait of my RCA TK60, but this is not just one shot! It’s a composite of about a dozen shots. This […]
New Richard Wirth Article…The SMPTE Time Code This is a perfect detailed follow up to the Smith Block and video editing stories I posted. Here’s the story of how the time code came to be and, having been around for almost half a century, how it has withstood the test of time. Some of the […]
The Studio 50 Audio Booth On the left you see the new audio booth built in 1936 when CBS took over the theater for use as a radio studio. In 1950, it was converted to a television studio. On the right, Lucy is in rehearsal for a 1956 Sullivan show and behind her, you see […]
TeleTales #58…Hauling Ass Into History! A Dream Of Jeannie? What does this picture of a donkey in the backseat have to do with television history? Actually, quite a lot. This is a publicity shot for a 1964 movie called “The Brass Bottle” which costarred Barbara Eden. Although she did not play the genie that lived […]
Paul Beck is a genius and a hero, along with his colleagues.
Featuring my two all-time favorite cameras 🙂