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Old 02-03-2017, 08:30 PM
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Identify these sets from the rear

Press release picture from the Henry Ford museum, captioned:

"Dancers from the Moiseyev Dance Company of Russia are fascinated by a display in the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich., which enables visitors to see themselves on television. Specializing in folk dance, the 93-member Russian troupe is on a tour of the United States. The museum display features a new portable camers[sic] devloped by Radio Corporation of America which is connected to a television receiving set. The camera, only 2 1/2 inches high, 3 inches wide and 8 1/4 inches long, permits coverage in close, restricted areas."

The camera is out of the picture, apparently on a tripod of which one leg shows. The two TVs are very likely RCAs, since RCA is the camera maker, and appear to be a Mahogany upright console (I'm guessing the black and white mate to a CTC-5 or CTC-7) and a blond horizontal console, which seems to be connected to rabbit ears rather than the camera. The people seem to be looking at the upright console rather than the blond one.
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