An early TV workaroundSourced
To film an eclipse,
roll the studio camera outside.
WFRV-TV claimed to be the first station to show a live lunar eclipse in 1959. Its method was direct: wheel a studio camera into the station parking lot.
The moon was outside,
so the camera went too.
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