CBS looks back on 20 years of television innovation in this 18 page review from July 1951…smack dab in the middle of the Color War with RCA/NBC.
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ULTRA RARE! New, Unseen Early RCA Color Trials Photos These first 2 images are from the personal collection of long time NBC Washington TD Bill Wells, who was there from 1947, until his retirement in the mid ’70s. I have added 3 others to help support what we are seeing in the Wells photos, and […]
One Of A Kind Photo This is the full complement of equipment associated with the RCA “Walkie Lookie” Vidicon camera. This photo from the 1956 NAB Convention, shows the wireless version with the backpack transmitter on the table. This camera and a few others like this were used by NBC for the ’52 political conventions, […]
April 22, 1966…A Moment In Time With Sammy Davis This opens with a great shot of Sammy standing in front of an RCA TK41 operated by veteran cameraman Frank Gaeta. This was the fifteenth and last episode of “The Sammy Davis Jr. Show”, from NBC’s Brooklyn Studios on April 22, 1966. Notice at the end, […]
October 4, 1954 – ‘December Bride’ Debuted On CBS Spring Byington starred not only in the television version, but in the CBS Radio version as well which began in 1952 with a cast of stars that included Hal March and Doris Singleton as her daughter and husband, and Hans Conrad as neighbor Pete Potter. ‘December […]