Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: 1973 Broadcast Cameras

 

I'll bet the "Museum of Broadcast Technology" has everything you need:


Note that this isn't really a "museum" so much as a whole bunch of machines collected by some Boston-area industry veterans, headed by Paul Beck & Tom Sprague.  I haven't seen either of them in years but I'll bet you can track them down through the New England chapter of the SMPTE.  Tom is likely still over at National Boston which he founded:


p.s. You might notice in the article about the MBT (first URL above) the 2nd-to-last and 3rd-to-last photos show Peter Fasciano, formerly of Avid.  For those who don't know him, check out all these Avid patents of his, including some of the work underlying PhraseFind & ScriptSync:


On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:55 PM, 'Dave Spraker' avid@spraker.tv [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

KLEW-TV down the road had a flat top quad machine (RCA I think) that was purchased in 1956 and later upgraded to color.  It was still in operation when I left in 1989.

 

Dave Spraker

 

Principal, spraker.tv

Shared Storage Solutions  |  Consulting  |  Sports Audio

www.spraker.tv

 

Northwest Territory Manager, Western Rep Associates

Broadcast and AV Manufacturer's Representative

www.westernrep.com

 

dave@spraker.tv
(503) 897-0250

 

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 5:43 PM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com; Dave Spraker; 'David Dodson'


Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] OT: 1973 Broadcast Cameras

 

 

Not to go too far down memory lane, but I recall those 2-inch machines were actually donated to WSU by NASA - and numbered in the hundreds.

 

Also, I'll never forget the live-delay machine - record on one 2" machine, through a series of Rube Goldberg pulleys, playback on another 2" machine 10 feet (and 10 seconds away! 

 

I DID see a Sony 'port-a-pack' at a thrift store in Oxnard a few months ago... I'm guessing it's probably still there.  Because of the physical size of old studio cameras, you're not likely to find them on eBay.

 

Wait - HHAAAA ! 

 

 

Also SMPTE runs a museum somewhere. 

 

gh

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Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] OT: 1973 Broadcast Cameras
From: "'Dave Spraker' avid@spraker.tv [Avid-L2]"
<Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, July 07, 2015 5:18 pm
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>, "'David Dodson'"
<davidadodson@sbcglobal.net>

 

A time machine maybe? 

 

You might find a public access facility or a school that would at least be analog.

 

When I went to school in the 80s, WSU still had RCA TK44s and 2" quad machines.  Long gone now.

 

Dave Spraker

 

Principal, spraker.tv

Shared Storage Solutions  |  Consulting  |  Sports Audio

 

Northwest Territory Manager, Western Rep Associates

Broadcast and AV Manufacturer's Representative

 

 

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 5:04 PM
To: Avid-L2
Subject: [Avid-L2] OT: 1973 Broadcast Cameras

 

 

I have to shoot a fake 1973 television panel show. The goal is to use, to the extent that it's even possible, actual broadcast cameras from the period. Is this just a complete pie-in-the-sky ambition, or does anyone have any ideas of whether or not cameras from this era are around anywhere, and functional. Not that I can even imagine what we would record to.

 

Any thoughts or suggestions would deb appreciated. I would also be curious to know who made the dominant studio broadcast cameras in the 70's.

 

Thanks,

 

DD

 

 

 


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