Texas Museum of Broadcasting & Communications

[old_tv_nut]

Wow - a working studio using vintage gear is tremendously ambitious - I wish you all the best in attempting this. Sounds like an exercise similar to CRT rebuilding only maybe worse when it comes to getting working camera tubes and keeping them going.

[Telecruiser]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Wow - a working studio using vintage gear is tremendously ambitious - I wish you all the best in attempting this. Sounds like an exercise similar to CRT rebuilding only maybe worse when it comes to getting working camera tubes and keeping them going.

It may be. The cameras I have in mind are early CCD cameras that take little or no set up. Even those are over 25 years old. I also have several Sarticon and Plumbicon cameras that could be pressed into service. I have spare tubes for those. Using something like a fleet of RCA TK-11's would be cool, but not really practical.

[RJMiranda]

The best of luck with your museum! I will keep tuned.

Next time I go to Santiago de Cuba I will ask permission to take some stills at the Museo de la Imagen (Image Museum) there, to post in Videokarma. The museum is in a medium-sized house, and it has a lot of gear from the 1950´s to the 80´s. Of course the variety can´t be the same than in a US museum, even a small one. But they have a small OB Van outside. I think it was bought second-hand in the US after some stations switched to color there, and used in Cuba by private TV and later State TV until well into the 60s or maybe 70s.

I keep some old gear at my work place. From EIAJ studio and portable VTRs to UMatics. Whatever was owned by small Cuban production crews that worked for various State institutions at that time. What I lack in my "museum" is Betacam units. Don´t misunderstand me: I have quite a few of them, but not in the "museum". Because I STILL use them daily!

[TV-collector]

Oh, I love that building, just the kind of building I need for my museum.....

TV-collector

P.S. Yes, donaters are welcome!
P.S.-2 Yes, I wish you luck from another "stupid".

[Telecruiser]

Originally Posted by TV-collector

Oh, I love that building, just the kind of building I need for my museum.....

TV-collector

P.S. Yes, donaters are welcome!
P.S.-2 Yes, I wish you luck from another "stupid".

The building is very cool. It was built in 1949-50 to be a Chevrolet dealership. It is roughly 19,200 square feet, which will wear you out hiking trough all of it. If you are coming to the ETF convention, I'll be making a presentation about the trials and tribulations of getting something like this started. I hope to see you there.