Don't drop it!

[ppppenguin]

From "The Television Annual for 1959".

I think it's a Marconi Mk IV camera. https://eyesofageneration.com/camera-col...i-mark-iv/

[ppppenguin]

Forgot the picture!

[peter scott]

I guess that would be a drone today.

Peter

[ppppenguin]

I'll see if I can find some photos of EMI 2001 colour cameras (very heavy!) being hauled into odd places for older editions of "One Man and his Dog".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Man_and_His_Dog

Please note that the wikipedia article on the 2001 contains errors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_2001 It certainly wasn't available in 1966, it wasn't even available for the first BBC2 colour transmissions in 1967. The only cameras available at that time were the Marconi Mk VII and Philips PC60.

[Yellowtriumph]

My old boss at one of the ITV companies worked in OB's in the early part of his career. One day out on a Church OB they needed to get a particularly heavy camera into a very awkward position very high up somewhere in the internals of the church roof. The riggers did not think it possible given the very narrow and somewhat precarious stairs that needed to be climbed to get access.

My old boss took the camera off it's pedestal, somehow strapped it on his back and climbed up with it into the recesses much to everyone's amazement!

He was I believe an ex-WW2 commando and known thereafter as 'the Cockleshell hero'.