A 1942 RCA Review look at the design and construction of NBC’s brand new, twin sixth-floor studios at Radio City. Built for radio, but planned with an eye on the future of television.
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Look Familiar? I Thought So…You Were Not Alone! In reviewing the comments from yesterday’s story on Rosie, I noticed some conversations about drawing pictures of cameras and studios as kids, so…I thought we’d take a trip down memory lane. As it turns out, a lot of us that went into the field did this and […]
A Learning Moment; The First Mobile Units and Field Cameras In 1939, RCA designed and built the first mobile television production units ever. They were a pair but between them, supported only two cameras as one unit was a control room truck and one was a generator/transmitter truck. This is one of those two RCA […]
Look At The Floor In the days of live television, floor marks for cameras, booms, actors, props and scenery were everywhere. Even with a few full camera rehearsals, it wasn’t easy to remember what lens and what position you were supposed to be in. The floor marks helped. This shot is from ‘The Armstrong Circle […]
America’s First Television Pioneer…Charles Jenkins Below is a photo of Charles Francis Jenkins directing “Shadowgraph” mechanical television November 6, 1929 at W3XK located in Washington DC and later, Wheaton Maryland. According to research from friend of mine, Dr. Horace Newcomb, (who until last year was head of the Peabody Awards committee at The University of […]
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