{"id":23867,"date":"2014-10-22T04:55:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T08:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23867"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:51:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:51:59","slug":"television-in-the-army-1953-the-big-picture-special-this-is-about-as-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23867","title":{"rendered":"Television In The Army&#8230;1953 &#8216;The Big Picture&#8217; Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Television-In-The-Army...1953-The-Big-Picture-Special-This-is-about-as-good.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTelevision In The Army&#8230;1953 &#8216;The Big Picture&#8217; Special<\/p>\n<p>This is about as good a look at RCA TK 11\/31s in action as you will ever get, but we also see Dumont 5098C cameras here. There are some RCA TK30s scattered in and even a small Dage portable and RCA&#8217;s Walky Looky. There&#8217;s a lot of camera footage here, but you&#8217;ll have to skip around some.<\/p>\n<p>The first 10 minutes of this is done at the Army&#8217;s New York facility and is RCA heavy. Some of the TK30 footage of the war games was shot at West Point.<\/p>\n<p>The second segment takes us to Augusta, Georgia and the Southeast Signal Corps School at Ft. Gordon (where I trained), and this installation was equipped with Dumont equipment, including a kinescope machine which we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>At around 14 minutes in, we see a small Dage portable and at 21, more of the mobile unit with TK30s. At 22:25 we see the RCA Walky Looky in action. Many of us that grew up in the 50s and 60s remember watching these &#8216;Big Picture&#8217; presentations on our local stations. Do you remember? Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p>[evp_embed_video url=&#8221;http:\/\/CDN.eyesofageneration.com\/Content\/Viewseum\/TVArmyBigPix.mp4&#8243; preload=&#8221;none&#8221; template=&#8221;mediaelement&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/744741272230091\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Television In The Army&#8230;1953 &#8216;The Big Picture&#8217; Special This is about as good a look at RCA TK 11\/31s in action as you will ever get, but we also see Dumont 5098C cameras here. There are some RCA TK30s scattered in and even a small Dage portable and RCA&#8217;s Walky Looky. There&#8217;s a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[683,785,1298,788],"class_list":["post-23867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cameras","tag-dumont","tag-dumont-5098c","tag-rca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61552,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867\/revisions\/61552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}