Questions about General Electric PE-15 & PE-25 IO colour cameras

[John Hafer]

Hey W.B. your above questions have bugged me for years and I never could find the exact answers.

I have attached GE ads of:
PE-24A from 1964
PE-240 early model (Round edges)
PE-240 later model (square edges)
PE-245 (Harris replacement for GE)
TF-100 (Harris last color film camera generation)

Finally a GE PF-7A color film scanner (1958)

As far as I can tell from looking at all my ads, it seems that GE started with the square edge PE-24 and PE-24A, then went to the round edges with the introduction of the PE-240, but then later switched back to square edges for later model PE-240 and then Harris PE-245 cameras.

I also have pictures of the CBS broadcast center in NYC showing GE color film cameras with the round edges and I suspect CBS bought these for their fall 1965 color broadcast startup. I am thinking these were PE-240 cameras.

Finally regarding an early GE 3V camera, my info only shows that GE made a color film scanner (starting in 1958) instead of a color film camera (see attached photo). I am thinking there was no 3V camera.