Looking for NBC peacock video

[W.B.]

Originally Posted by Pete Deksnis

A few years ago I acquired a Guthy-Renker DVD of the October 7, 1968 Laugh-In marked LGDVD001. Screen cap of the bird attached. [apparently not; seems i've maxed out at 3.3 Meg of pix upload; they're kidding, right!]


The consensus is that it was shot with RCA TK-41 cameras.

Believe it. TK-41's continued to be used at NBC's New York and Burbank studios up to around mid-1969 when TK-44A's were broken in.

In the August 1969 edition of Broadcast Engineering, in an article about TV coverage of the moon landing, there was a picture of an NBC crew using a Norelco PC-70 camera, with "NBC Color," the NBC snake in a box - and the Norelco logo taken out, not unlike what CBS had done with RCA TK-10/30 and TK-11/31 cameras way back when.