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Author Topic: 35mm in TV Stations Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-07-2014 10:05 AM                     The BBC used the Mechau projectors for transfer machines and Emil Mechau was responsible for the flying spot scanner http://www.bbctv-ap.co.uk/mechau2.htm http://www.bbctv-ap.co.uk/mechau.htm  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 04-11-2014 12:19 PM                     I believe all the New York City stations ran 35mm at some point. I know for a fact that in addition to the 3 networks, WPIX channel 11 and WNEW channel 5 did. I believe WOR channel 9 also ran 35mm when they were still owned by RKO General.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 04-13-2014 11:24 PM                     Found this Jackie Gleason "Honeymooners" Pic.Wasn't The Dumont Film System essentially a 35mm Camera directed into a Vidacon TV Camera producing a KINESCOPE or Vice-Versa! Either way the image quality from what I remember as a kid watching it was pretty poor.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 04-14-2014 08:15 AM                     I have a 20 minute 35mm promo film made by the DuMont Network to promote the Electrocam System for use by other producers. The promo shows how the system worked, and contains 35mm clips of various DuMont Newtwork shows, some in color. The camera contained a beam splitter that sent the image simultaneously to the 35mm film section of the camera and the vidicon pickup. The video from each camera was sent to the control room where the engineers would switch between cameras just as they would a "live" broadcast. In the control room, there was a 16mm kinoscope (16mm camera aimed at a tv) running to record the resulting "live multi-camera" show. Using the 16mm Kinoscope print, they would later go back and edit the raw 35mm camera footage from the various cameras into a 35mm print that was identical to what was aired live. Not to much different from the way films were edited in the 1990's, except the 16mm kinoscope was replaced with video tape. Unrelated but interesting trivia, the major investor in the DuMont Network was Paramount Pictures. When they pulled their support, the network went broke, and the network owned stations were sold to a company called Metromedia, which ran them as independent stations up until the late 1980's, when Fox bought Metromedia to form the core of their new Fox Network.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 04-14-2014 01:31 PM                     They also made a 16mm model using an Arri S camera in the blimp.  |  IP: Logged

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