Did anyone else see CBS Sunday Morning this morning.
They did a piece on a prop house in North Hollywood
and all the historic items they have for use in movies
and TV shows.
I happened to have my new digital camera sitting on
the end table next to my chair so I was able to
pause the play back and snap some photos of the
Antique Radio items shown.
There's a Philco Predicta in the first pic that's a long
shot of the interior of the 30,000+ sq foot warehouse
where they store all the goodies visible on the left
side of the photo behind the shelf full of horn speakers.
The second shot is a close up of the horns, if you've
seen my collection you'll know that I love horns.
The third shot is of vintage TV cameras.
The last one shows a gold microphone.

I like this show, this morning's was extra good, along
with the piece on the prop house, they did one on
Jackie Kennedy's tour of the White House 50 years
ago this week. It was interesting that even though
CBS produced it, it was shown simultaneously
on all three networks. If you watched TV that night
you just about had to watch the show. I remember
seeing, my mom was fascinated with Jackie.
Personally I never did think she was all the good looking.
Princess Kate of GB is light years more beautiful than
Jackie.

They also did a piece on Peter Frampton and him
getting his Les Paul guitar back that had been lost
in a plane crash back in the 70s.

It was a good show, I think I'll lock it in the DVR so
I can watch it again.

I saw it too Ron and, as you've pointed out, CBS Sunday Morning is always a great show.

I really like the old RCA cameras you show. I remember when they tried not to let one be seen on most programs, (live back then) so it was a treat to actually see one, especially when it was on a large hydralic boom.

I was at an auction not that long ago that had a bunch of old TV cameras and some really old movie theater projectors (really early like maybe silent movie days) the projectors were in pretty rough shape but complete and restorable and they went cheap. I wish I knew more about them, it would be cool to restore one and have it in my collection but i dont know a thing about them other then they look awesome
Joe

Funny story about those cameras. At Emerson College back in the early '70s we had a prof named Dan Lounsberry who had produced The Bell Telephone Hour and before that, Your Hit Parade (YHP) in the very early days of network TV. Dan told about a problem that came up on YHP when using those cameras (RCA TK10s, I think - which we still had at school then) with their turret (not zoom) lenses.

Since YHP had regular cast members perform the week's hot hits, and since sometimes a record became a hit out of nowehere, there would be lyrics to memorize and not enough time for everyone in the cast to commit them to memory. And Dan said that more than once, singer Snookie Lanson asked to have the lyrics written in chalk on the studio floor. Usually everything was fine. But Dan also said that sometimes the director would call for a close-up of Snookie and so the camera operator would truck (roll) the camera close-in, since he had no zoom capability. More than once that meant the camera rolled right over the lyrics on the floor! Now you'll know what happened if you ever see an old kinescope of YHP and Snookie starts to hum a song, rather than continue singing the words!