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Apocalypse Denied
It’s a fact too few people know: In 1961 a crippled B-52 dropped two megaton nuclear weapons on the farm community of Faro, North Carolina. I grew up a few miles from where those bombs landed and I always heard rumors about the night Wayne County was n…
Read More →Apocalypse Denied
It’s a fact too few people know: In 1961 a crippled B-52 dropped two megaton nuclear weapons on the farm community of Faro, North Carolina. I grew up a few miles from where those bombs landed and I always heard rumors about the night Wayne County was n…
Read More →Daze of Chunder
Just so you don’t think Viewfinder BLUES has gone all Ken Burns on ya, here’s a modern day screen-grab of a cutting-edge journalist in action. Okay, so it’s just a random snapshot of my friend Eric daydreaming. Maybe he was pondering one of life’s grea…
Read More →Daze of Chunder
Just so you don’t think Viewfinder BLUES has gone all Ken Burns on ya, here’s a modern day screen-grab of a cutting-edge journalist in action. Okay, so it’s just a random snapshot of my friend Eric daydreaming. Maybe he was pondering one of life’s grea…
Read More →The Mike Spider Box
[a repost for my much larger audience so they may learn the history of some of tools of the trade.] The mult box has its origins in a 1938 invention by Fox Movietone’s Warren McGrath and Paramount News’ Marshall McCarroll. Though in those days, it was christened the “Mike Spider Box” instead of its current […]
Read More →There Goes My Hero…
Ever since television engineers stitched together the first test pattern out of stolen horse blankets, lenslingers like me have been expected to ride side-saddle. Case in point: this extraordinary find by broadcast archivist Amanda Emily. That’s …
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