Equipment for hire
Equipment produced by "RCA".
Defunct giant US electronics manufacturer. Liked to think that it invented everything tv & radio.
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RCA MI 26205B
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from the beginning of 1950's to the beginning of 1970's |
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Pan & Tilt Heads |
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1 specimens available |
Unique in the UK, a complete RCA friction pan & tilt head with tripod (type TD 11A) and dolly (type TD 15A). This friction head type was used extensively in American monochrome tv stations and also on 'remotes' with the tripod and dolly combination which folded for easy transportation. 'Low cost' tv studios also used the tripod and dolly as an alternative to a pedestal. Manufactured by Houston-Fearless, the RCA pan head & dolly was used for over twenty five years (and may indeed still be running around somewhere). Larger picture shows the Dolly/Skid folded.
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RCA TK76
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from the end of 1970's to the beginning of 1980's |
Type: |
Broadcast TV cameras |
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4 specimens available |
The first self-contained 3-tube portable colour TV camera which made ENG (Electronic News Gathering) viable. Numbered '76' for the US bicentennial year, it was orginally going to be called the TK70. Our example pictured was used by Grampian Tv, who ran a total of five TK76 cameras in Aberdeen and beyond.
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RCA TK 47
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from the end of 1970's to the beginning of 1990's |
Type: |
Broadcast TV cameras |
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1 specimens available |
Fully developed 3 tube colour TV camera offering microprocessor control and alignment. Popular around the world and often finding many 'second user' assignments in many places.
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RCA TR70B
Period: |
from the end of 1960's to the beginning of 1980's |
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VTR |
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2 specimens available |
2" Quadruplex VTR, very large, very heavy. One unit in full working order. Excellent multi standard machine. Transfer work considered - please enquire.
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RCA Lavalier mic BK6B
Period: |
from the end of 1950's to the beginning of 1980's |
Type: |
Microphones |
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2 specimens available |
Small (6cms x 2cms) moving coil neck-worn mic, engineered to reproduce speech from an angle. Can also be hand held or desk mounted. Items are in working condition. Used in studios and on location from the mid-1950s. XLR plug.
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RCA 1850A Iconoscope
Period: |
from the end of 1940's to the beginning of 1950's |
Type: |
Imaging Tubes |
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1 specimens available |
1850A Iconoscope camera tube. This tube is from the late 1940's but the design is late 1930's. The difference in the period of manufacture is denoted by the internal white flashing. The tube is not gassed and the getter is still good.
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RCA 3 Inch Image Orthicon
Period: |
from the end of 1940's to the beginning of 1970's |
Type: |
Imaging Tubes |
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10 specimens available |
The 3 inch Image Orthicon tube was produced first in the USA by RCA initially for WW2 military use and then in 1945 for broadcast use. Termed a 'low velocity' photo emmisive tube, the 3 inch IO revolutionised tv camera design and tv production because of its high sensitivity. This enabled outside broadcasting to be undertaken in very poor light and also implimented the use of camera lens turrets and electronic viewfinders. One 'trick' of the 3 inch IO was that it could photograph the human face by the light of a single small candle. The black 'halo' reproduced around the candle flame was another matter.
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RCA Model 400 16mm film projector
Period: |
from the end of 1950's to the end of 1970's |
Type: |
Film projectors |
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1 specimens available |
Solidly built work horse. Operational, with optical sound.
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RCA MI26203-A
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from the full 1960's to the beginning of 1970's |
Type: |
Pan & Tilt Heads |
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1 specimens available |
This cradle head, manufactured by Houston Fearless was used by RCA TK 10A/11A studio cameras. The cradle head was smooth in operation but limited in tilt angle
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RCA TK11A
Period: |
from the end of 1940's to the full 1950's |
Type: |
Broadcast TV cameras |
Quantity: |
1 specimens available |
The RCA TK11A was a 3"inch b/w image orthicon camera used
mainly in the USA and Asia. Some European use. A few were
used in the UK during the 1950s by the independent television
company Associated-Rediffusion at their Wembley and Kingsway
studios. The camera generally used Kodak Ektar lenses. The
camera pictured is non functioning but implants possible.
This is the only existing example, in Europe, of this camera,
available for hire.
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RCA 77D MI 4045-B
Period: |
from the full 1940's to the full 1980's |
Type: |
Microphones |
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1 specimens available |
Classic and iconic ribbon 'pill' microphone from the USA. This is the RCA 77D circa 1945-although the basic design is mid-1930s. Still in working condition. Hire possible under strict conditions. Larger image shows mic dressed with a reproduction 'NBC' flag
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RCA RCA TK10A
Period: |
from the end of 1940's to the full 1960's |
Type: |
Broadcast TV cameras |
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1 specimens available |
Introduced in September 1947 the RCA TK 10A was the studio version of the RCA TK 30A 'field' camera. The TK 10A used a 3"inch image orthicon monochome tube and had a turret of four, usually Kodak Ektar lenses. This camera is the only example of it's type in the UK and possibly Europe. Our example can be fitted with simulated practical imaging and cue lights. USA style pedestal and RCA cradle pan and tilt head to complete the ensemble.
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