retronewfoundland

Something I want to see if ‪@wmbrown6‬ knows about - it involves the TV cameras used by Radio-Canada in Montreal in the late '60s, for I had a chance to look at a couple of episodes of Les belles histoires des pays d'en haut at the end of a free preview of ICI ARTV (increasing my count of surviving color episodes from 56 as of a few years ago to 58, with two more to get in a future free preview). The quality of the picture looked good considering it was a 1960s production that had made the jump to color during 1967, so I wonder which manufacturer's cameras were used then. Or anyone with a knowledge of ‪@RadioCanada‬ history might help me out? Was it RCA? Norelco? Something else?

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@wmbrown6

I think the CBC (and by extension Radio-Canada), when they first went color, went with what we would call the Norelco PC-60/70, but sold abroad as the Philips LDK-3. But that was in best-case scenarii. Early on, and I saw a few pictures online on their site, R-C and CBC used the infamous RCA TK-42 (or was it TK-43) cameras.

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