{"id":24975,"date":"2014-08-23T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T11:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24975"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:51:06","slug":"on-closer-examination-something-we-all-missed-is-herelast-month-some-colle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24975","title":{"rendered":"On Closer Examination&#8230;Something We All Missed Is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Closer Examination&#8230;Something We All Missed Is Here!<\/p>\n<p>Last month, some collector friends and I were trying to put a date on the introduction of the Houston Fearless TD 3 pedestal. We all thought 1954 was probably the year the new lead counterweight pedestal debuted, but low and behold&#8230;look at this!<\/p>\n<p>Just this morning, I was looking for photos of the RCA Electra Zoom lens for the next article I&#8217;m posting today, but look what I found. At least one TD 3 is in use here on the debut of &#8216;Today&#8217;  on January 14, 1952! <\/p>\n<p>I think this is the prototype in a field test and where better to put it through it&#8217;s paces than this new morning show. Notice a silver band just under the lock ring&#8230;that&#8217;s where the access doors join to the column cover. That was never there on the production models. <\/p>\n<p>We can see the TD 3 in two of these photos and in the third one, we see what the other cameras were mounted on&#8230;the old TD 1 crank up model. While you click through these, take a close look at the zoom lens and I&#8217;ll have more on that next, and look at that teleprompter. I think that may have been an RCA prototype too. I&#8217;ve never seen that anywhere else but here on &#8216;Today&#8217;, have you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/719435724760646\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/On-Closer-Examination...Something-We-All-Missed-Is-Here-Last-month-some-colle\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/719435724760646\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477216502_805_On-Closer-Examination...Something-We-All-Missed-Is-Here-Last-month-some-colle\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/719435724760646\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477216503_307_On-Closer-Examination...Something-We-All-Missed-Is-Here-Last-month-some-colle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/719440591426826\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Closer Examination&#8230;Something We All Missed Is Here! Last month, some collector friends and I were trying to put a date on the introduction of the Houston Fearless TD 3 pedestal. We all thought 1954 was probably the year the new lead counterweight pedestal debuted, but low and behold&#8230;look at this! 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