Object Details
- Sony Corporation
- Description
- Cameraman and reporter, Andreas Morin used this handheld Sony Trinitron color camera when he worked for the Spanish-language KWEX-TV in San Antonio, Texas. The camera recorded to ¾-inch tape, allowed reporters to leave the studio and easily capture news on location. The camera connected to a portable recorder ( object 2015.0002.04) which was worn via on over-the-shoulder strap.
- KWEX-TV Channel 41 broadcast various news and local interest programming from locations around the city, including Mass from the San Fernando Cathedral. KWEX traces its roots to KCOR-TV, launched by Raoul A. Cortez in 1954-1955 as the first Latino-owened, Spanish-language station in the continental United States. Cortez sold the station to his son-in-law, Emilio Nicolas and a group of investors in 1961. It would become the hub of operations for the Spanish International Network, the forerunner to Univision.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Andres Ricardo Morin
- c. 1970-1979
- ca 1975
- ID Number
- 2015.0003.01
- serial number
- 12266
- catalog number
- 2015.0003.01
- accession number
- 2015.0003
- model number
- DXC-1600
- Object Name
- camera
- television camera
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- black (overall color)
- plastic (overall material)
- beige (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 in x 4 in x 16 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 10.16 cm x 41.91 cm
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Cultures & Communities
- American Enterprise
- KCOR Radio and Television
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Radio and television broadcasting
- Latino
- Record ID
- nmah_1591226
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-7a11-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
