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Viewseum
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The Viewseum is a portal for viewing things that belong in a museum of rare moving images…all gathered in a central location. These videos and curated photographs have been collected to tell a story of television in action. This is a living history of broadcasting that spans the decades, as far back as the…
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NBC COLOR PERFECT PROMOS FROM THE ’60S
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Here, back to back, are two :60 second promo’s from NBC, touting their color abilities in the mid 1960s. You have to give them and RCA credit as the leaders in color. No one was better, but unfortunately, when these transfers were made from film to video a few years ago, the master prints…
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Over 1,250 Curated Photos…Inside NBC 1976-79 & 2004-17
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THIS is the granddaddy of network photo tours! Our good friend Dennis Degan spent many years at 30 Rock and kept a photographic record, that to this day, serves as a historic guide to studio makeovers, new control rooms, cosmetic construction and a general documentation of what was going on inside the studios of…
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250 Curated, Behind The Scenes Photos
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Ever see the inside of the Unitel Studios in New York, or the SESAME STREET sets at Reaves Teletape Studio 81, or WTCG’s Atlanta studios? Even if you have, you’ve never seen pictures like these from our good friend Dennis Degan! Also in this great collection of photos are production shots from Elton John’s…
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Inside CBS Broadcast Center, 1978 Photo Tour
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At this link are 29 classic images taken and shared by our dear friend Dennis Degan. Through the course of his television carier, he has worked as engineer and editor but is also a first rate photographer so enjoy! Be sure to notice the captions on each image when you move your mouse over…
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Ultra Rare…Inside NBC’s New York Studios 1950
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As TV was taking off in 1950, NBC and others struggled to find studio space in New York. This rare film shows us, in more detail than we have ever seen, the course those efforts with a look inside not only the “Radio City” 30 Rock building, but also the International, Center and Hudson…
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EXCLUSIVE! 1963 Video Tour Of The Ed Sullivan Theater…A One Of A Kind Look Behind The Scenes
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With many thanks to The University of Indiana Libraries Moving Image Archive, we are very happy and proud to be able to present an amazing piece of historic video that takes us, in two parts, first on a technical tour of CBS Studio 50, or as it is better known now; The Ed Sullivan…
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4 Minutes Of RCA/NBC Color With TK41s
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This is part of the original 26 minute RCA presentation from 1956 that pitches color to the public. The full length version is linked below, but this it the good part if you (like me) love TK41s. It is such a rare occasion to see the great giants in action, that I thought it…
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Rare: Mechanical Broadcast of TV’s First Drama, The Queen’s Messenger
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This is part of the first ever dramatic television broadcast called “The Queen’s Messenger” and what you are seeing in this clip below is how they shot a close up scene that concentrated on the actors hands, and what they had in them. The experiment was broadcast by GE’s Schenectady, New York television station…
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January 6, 1952…First Ever “TODAY” Promo
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First Ever “TODAY” Promo, Live With Fred Allen & Dave Garroway In preparation for a new era of television, the full staff of the new “TODAY” show began reporting to work at 4 AM, Monday January 2, 1952, to get them acclimated to their new early morning schedules, two weeks prior to the January…
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TODAY Show Debut
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It was 7 AM, January 14, 1952 when TODAY debuted on NBC. There were of course a number of innovations that came from the show, but on Day 1, it seems to me that they are already pushing the envelope with a lower third news crawl at the bottom of the screen…AND a time…
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Inside NBC Like You Have Never Seen! Pristine “Behind Your Radio Dial” Video
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About five years ago, I found this classic 1948 movie short on YouTube. It was a bad dub of a bad dub, but at least it was a rare glimpse into the history of NBC when radio was king and TV was just getting started. As a matter of fact, this film gives us…
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CBS Portable Prototype In Action, 1962 Belmont Stakes & ’63 Beatles Miami
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There are two videos here. The first is a great look at the first CBS portable and wireless camera developed in 1961-62 by CBS VP of Technology Dr. Joe Flaherty with help from Ikegami. There were three prototypes with one at CBS O&O KMOX in St. Louis to test for use as an “electronic…
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RCA TR 4 Video Tape Machine Demo
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This 1966 RCA demo on how their newest quad machine works is hosted by RCA’s John Wentworth and although the quality of the film capture is not a good as we would like it, the technical presentation is about as good as it gets. The TR-4 cost over $35,000 in 1966, equivalent to over…
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The BEST JOB In Live Television?
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If you guessed “anything” at Saturday Night Live, you’d be 99% right, but only one job in the world is the absolute “best”. Operating Camera 1 on the Chapman Electra crane in NBC Studio 8H is the hands down winner and although seeing a video is not the same as being there, this sure…
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NBC/RCA First All Electronic Television Broadcast…July 7, 1936
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The First All Electronic Television Broadcast by RCA & NBC, July 7, 1936 The Television History Part The video here was shot by a Pathe film camera on July 7, 1936…the day that RCA’s all electronic experimental television system was first demonstrated to an audience of people other than RCA and NBC engineers.…
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INSIDE NBC’S COLONIAL THEATER & RCA’S COLOR EFFORT
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In all these 15 years of research, I have never found this whole black and white promotional film from RCA until just yesterday! This amazing film titled “Color Television; an NBC Documentary” shows some of the most advanced science of the day as we are taken behind the scenes not only at The Colonial…
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Video Tape…Images With Impact
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This 23 minute presentation is a fine historical tutorial on early videotape editing, all the way from the jump cut developed on NBC’s “Laugh In” to the electronic video editing of the 70s and 80s.
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AMAZING CBS COLOR STUDIO 72 NYC…COLOR FILM TOUR
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Here is a newly discovered piece of color television history about one of the least known network color facilities…CBS Studio 72 in New York. This is a never aired feature that shows color productions of “The Ed Sullivan Show” and the mystery show “Danger” in 1954. There are tons of great shots of the…
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October 10, 1949…The First Ever Network Color Broadcast Airs
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The cameras you see here are what RCA referred to (this first color camera design) as the Princeton Cameras, as they were designed and built at the RCA Laboratory in Princeton NJ. In the rare photo above, we see singer Gladys Swarthout, performing for the dignitaries during the color test, just before “KFO” was…
