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I just discover this site this afternoon; it's run by CBS itself (and not an outside source), and I decided to place the topic here because of the historical significance of Television City in the history of television production. The gallery sections in particular has many photos dating to its opening in 1952 and even before that...the area that TV City where currently stands was once home to a sports and entertainment complex, containing separate baseball and football stadiums, and an outdoor amphitheater. There's also photos of CBS' other facilities in Hollywood, including Columbia Square and the Earl Carroll Theater (the site of that theater is now the Nickelodeon on Sunset studio), as well as a listing of every production every made there, at least from 1953 (the first full year of operation) to the present day, including on which soundstage it took place.

CBS also has a website for its Studio City facility (www.cbssc.com), which has been around for several years now, but this one for Television City is much more detailed and appealing, especially for those who enjoy the "nuts and bolts" of television history.
 
Judging from the pictures there and on Bobby Ellerbee's "Eyes of a Generation" site, the color Norelco cameras in each of the four Television City stages as of the late 1960's would have been: early PC-70 with round applied handles (as first built in early 1966) at 31 and 33, later PC-70 with square molded handles (built staring later 1966) at 41, and very early PC-60 (with 12 vertical air vents in each top section as opposed to 4 horizontal air vents) at 43. I.I.N.M., the color film chains and slide scanners at TV City from the mid-1960's to about the '80's would've likely been the General Electric PE-24 or PE-240 4-vidicon tube cameras, given CBS's "anybody but RCA" policy for buying equipment (plus their West 57th Street Broadcast Center in New York using the PE-240 chains).
 
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