Author: gilligans1

The more of this old stuff we see, the more the new ideas seem "not…

This short article in Popular Science is about the early home video tape offerings. It's…

From the Thraumatrope to the Video Walkman, the milestones are all here, in a brilliant…

An in-depth look at the development of videotape as we know it. This 24 page…

From NBC's internal files, here are documents on NBC's iconic signature sound as it has…

A 290 page collection of RCA's in-house journal of advances in mass communication technology from…

General Electric looks to the postwar years in this 1944 catalog.

Want to do a program at one of NBC's facilities? Here's how much it would…

Behind the scenes of John Cameron Swayze's "Camel News Caravan."

NBC looks at the development of color television in this document.

A selection of articles about the opening of NBC's first purpose-built Hollywood facility, which it…

The New York Times alerts readers to the first telecast from NBC's Burbank facility.

An NBC press release heralds a new studio at NBC's Burbank facility, December 1983.

TV Guide takes a look at progress in color television technology, and on the last…

Ed Sullivan stage manager Eddie Brinkmann gives a glimpse of what you didn't see on…

A glimpse behind the scenes of the on-air tests of CBS's mechanical color system.

A special look at CBS Television in 1955.

A special tribute to Don Pardo's 70-year career as the voice of countless programs.

Here's a catalog for GE's 1951 offerings.

Here's a catalog for a pioneering line of early televisions.