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The Baughman Pedestal
This little mobile pedestal was a real work horse from the 1950s till the 80s. Originally made by Baughman, Houston Fearless copied it as did other camera support makers including ITC. There was a hydraulic version and this one, the manual crank version for height adjustment. This is my RCA TK11/31 mounted on a manual crank Baughman pedestal. They were so strong, you could even mount TK42s on them which weighed almost 300 pounds.
They had these without the crank handle at QTQ Channel 9 in Brisbane Australia … I think they were RCA/HF by then …
Looks so scary! One time our kiddy guy bumped into a camera on a tripod dolly, and the camera fell right on the Field Zoomar. (The kiddy guy used to ride around the studio in a little gas-generated go-cart to get the kids to scream and get all hopped up before we went live.)
Our boom mic looks to be the same manufacturer. ca. 1975
They look top heavy.
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