NBC announces the first use of kinescoped recording on its network, June 27, 1948.
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This is the world’s first and only count of the remaining studio size television cameras from the Golden Age and beyond. Over 60 years of history is represented in this survey. The sad news is, there are very few that have made it. Included in the census are the RCA, Norelco, Marconi, GE and Dumont […]
‘The Mickey Mouse Club’…The Whole Inside Story Since it’s Sunday, and you have some time, here’s piece I have been wanting to repost for a while. I hope you’ll take a look. This is the best retrospective I’ve seen and much of it is told by the Mousketeers themselves. Enjoy and share! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1r-ufjAIfE 56 years […]
The History Of Video Tape Development By The Man Who Did It! [pdf-embedder url=”https://eyesofageneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Early-History-of-Video-Tape-1956-1964-The-Notes-of-Mel-Sater.pdf” title=”Early History of Video Tape (1956-1964) The Notes of Mel Sater”] Above is Melvin Sater’s 18 page account of those early days of developing the first commercially available line of video tape. Most of this amazing read has to do with […]
The Landmark Achievements Of “The Colgate Comedy Hour” There are three major landmarks in television history that occurred on this show which ran from September of 1950 through December of 1955. The first landmark is “the wheel format” which basically inserted rotating hosts on a weekly basis. The network also used the wheel format on […]