Newsfilm Cameramen

A pair of newsfilm television cameramen and a reporter all dressed up in the typical starched white shirts and ties of the era.

Norman Alley and views on TV News

By the time this article was written outlining Norman Alley’s views on news photography and television news, the Hearst newsreel crews were under contract with CBS News to shoot newsfilm for programs such as Ed Murrow’s See It Now.

Norman Alley, in addition to his usual duties with the Hearst newsreel, was Ed Murrow’s primary west coast news photographer outside of Charlie Mack, Murrow’s main go-to photog.

Alley son, Dexter, learned a lot at his father’s knee and followed in his footsteps of shooting news, becoming one of the first photographers hired on at a local affiliate in the late 1940s.

Circa 1956 KBMB-TV Field Crew

A KBMB-TV (now KXMB-TV) crew setup with their remote truck outside of the woman’s retail fashion store Buttrey’s in Bismark, South Dakota.

ENG and Beyond

The third in a series of fliers sent out by Cinema Products during the ENG vs newsfilm arguments of the late 1970s. This flier is a transcription of a talk given by Cinema Product’s Ed DiGiulio at the SMTPE Atlanta meeting in 1977.

Read “ENG and Beyond“

ENG Backlash

The second in a series of letters from Cinema Products that were mailed to TV managers during the late 1970s touting newsfilm over the then new ENG equipment.

Read “The ENG ‘emperor’ has no clothes”

Oh, and happy birthday Lenslinger!

ENG Hysteria

I will editorialize here and state this flier from a series sent out deriding ENG from Cinema Products is a case of déjà vu. Just replace ENG with “babycam” and newsfilm with “full-sized camera.”

Read “Whatever happened to the concept of TV news as an important public service?“

WPTZ-TV Newsreel Plane

The “WPTZ Television Newsreel Plane.”

If anyone has any information on this plane and why WPTZ owned it, the author of the site would be grateful for further information.

WTVG (WSPD-TV) – The Early Days of 1948

Telecine found online of the early days of WTVG back in the spring and summer of 1948.

How Television Works in 1948

Part One

Part Two

WRGB Studios in 1948

The early days of television broadcasting, including an early live truck.