When Hollywood declared war on Television
By the end of World War II, motion pictures were coming to the end of their Golden Age. In...
A Short History of Color in Film and Television
The beginning of the photochemical film process came in the form of still photography at the end of the...
Vintage TV Studios in Modern Film and Television
Have you ever watched a movie or a television program set in a time decades ago that had a...
Communications Satellites
The year 2017 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the first artificial earth object to orbit this planet. Sputnik 1...
Kinescope Recording – Television’s Antique Recording Medium
I’ve written about restoration of television programs before. But the master copies were usually on videotape that didn’t start...
Remote Productions: The Traveling Road Show Continues
In our first examination into the origins of television remotes, we explored the first mobile units designed to leave...
Remote Broadcasts: Television’s Traveling Roadshow
As television struggles to re-invent itself to stay relevant in a world increasingly getting their video fix from so-called...
Ernie Kovacs: Making Comedy a Uniquely Television Experience
If you aren’t saying to yourself “Ernie who?” then you might be saying “Why Ernie Kovacs?” These articles have...
Restoration of a Piece of Television History
Previously, we explored how the invention of monochrome video tape and the FCC’s approval of RCA’s compatible color television system...
Television in Transition – The 1950’s Version
“An Evening with Fred Astaire” shines to this day as an example of excellence in early television. The program...
