I joined the BBC in 1977 and spent my first 10 of 33 years in the corporation using the EMI 2001. How lovely to see it once again and so well explained.

Always wanted one of these cameras. Used to fascinate me as a kid seeing them in studio shots.

Thanks for posting this great film. I've always wanted a close up view and explanation of just what the camera crews had in the 70's and 80's. fantastic!

In the Polish Television (TVP) we used the same pedestal/dolly system, but we had at beginning Philips-colour studio television cameras, which were later on quickly replaced with much better German made *BOSH Fernseh KCK (40A)* with "Schneider" Zoom Lens. In Poland we used to work in SECAM standard television colour system.

Thats amazing. Cameras are one piece of technology that interest me alo. I love checking out hey day cameras. Thats a big zoom lens

Utterly wonderful. Glad you posted this.

Thanks for posting this!

That is gigantic, would love to have one of those.

A good insight into studio cameras from that era :o)

Zoom presets are preferred by a lot of camera men and are not preferred by a lot of camera men and are therefore a useful reference . . . . . .

Super Camera!

I wonder what BBC televisual delights this particular camera has caught. If only it could talk. I wonder where it is today.

relíquia este video,,, serviu pra um livro "ON CAMERA", corrija se eu estiver errado..

Me watching this camera 2001a sunday early morning into my bed, cloudy day of Autum from 🇨🇱

@digitalbroadcaster They did, I used them. I've got some pics somewhere. They also had the old BBC South Today set from the late 80's.

@ajuk1 - 2001 is the model of this camera.

I think some of these cameras and ped's ended up in the media department of Portsmouth University.

Imagine if we could go back in time and show off our smart phones... they would think we were witches or something...

At least come universities got some good use out of this equipment afterwards.

Great stuff. I wanted to be a cameraman.

I still remember Polaroid.

@jamestheposh Haha. Small world huh? I spent a little while in that Rotunda building, copying things as I used to build camera cranes etc. Now I use Super 35mm and work with camera helicopters. `Ground to air' as they say. I also have some pictures of those camera's from that building. On Polaroid's though. haha...Polawhat?

when i was at kmgh tv in the 1970s we used .. tk-44a rca then i worked up to the e.n.g e.fp like rca ikegamis im not to hot abt sony betas but the hd ikegamis were grreat!

mental i watched most of pt 2 before 1 cause of youtube

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yes he does know what he is doing he operated one and worked for the BBC until 1976 his name is John Henshall ,he is now the vice president of the guild of television cameramen,,the reason for his nervousness is that at the time he thought he could be caught out by the BBC middle management at the time ,i hope this will clarify the issue ,he now runs his own company

That is one monster lens! I'm surprised there is no shutter or aperture controls. I assume the lens is wide open so if necessary you can introduce neutral density filters to stop down.

Thats a big heavy zoom lens. Probably about 30 to 40 pounds

"panned up" just 0ver 2 min in lol does he not mean " tilted up" as you only ever pan left or right lol

Who's that guy in the background? This production must have been done on 'Take your kid to work" day. LOL!

2001, really?