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First use of Instant Replay was by CBC NOT CBS

The CBC replays were via a "Hot Kinescope" process (explained in the You Tube clip).

On the other hand, weren't WPIX-11's replays of Roger Maris's 60th and 61st home runs in 1961 within 30 to 60 seconds of the home runs being hit??

I thought I read somewhere that home run #60 was the first WPIX replay after Mel Allen said on-air "I'd love to see that one again!", and someone in the station's East Side studio told the remote crew at Yankee Stadium that they could rewind the tape and show it again in a few seconds.
 
I have seen a CBC kinescope of a 1959 playoff game at Boston where by then Toronto was using tape and showed the goal within 40 seconds.

Joseph_Gallant said:
The CBC replays were via a "Hot Kinescope" process (explained in the You Tube clip).

On the other hand, weren't WPIX-11's replays of Roger Maris's 60th and 61st home runs in 1961 within 30 to 60 seconds of the home runs being hit??

I thought I read somewhere that home run #60 was the first WPIX replay after Mel Allen said on-air "I'd love to see that one again!", and someone in the station's East Side studio told the remote crew at Yankee Stadium that they could rewind the tape and show it again in a few seconds.
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Fenway1912 said:
hubcity said:
But what I'd really like to know:

Was Keith Jackson's appearance in the Billy Wilder film "The Fortune Cookie" with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau the first use of the exclusive CBS Stop-Motion camera in a film? ;D

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/238388/Fortune-Cookie-The-Movie-Clip-Accident.html
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Irony is Keith never worked for CBS :-*
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I'm shocked at that - it apparently didn't ruffle enough feathers at CBS *or* ABC to stop it going on screen as such, and it sure had me thinking Jackson must have been at CBS. (Speaking of which, Wikipedia says he worked the Republican National Convention in 1964 with Walter Cronkite, and I really wonder what capacity he might have done that in, or even how true it might be.)

Strangely enough, Jack Lemmon did work for CBS, at the very least on a twice-a-week, 15-minute long sitcom called "Heaven for Betsy" in 1952, and even prior to that on the Frances Langford/Don Ameche show (again, per Wikipedia.) Of course, there's an episode of "Heaven For Betsy" on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUOK54o9aA
 
CBS did show the shooting of Oswald by Ruby via slow-motion tape, after missing it live because they hadn't cut to Dallas quickly enough. I believe the slow-motion version is on the home video of CBS coverage released in the early 1980s.

ABC's Bob Trachinger developed the slow-motion tape replay in 1961, and ABC used it to show halftime highlights on college football that fall, notably, a clip of Boston College's Jack Concannon weaving his way through defenders en route to a touchdown. It was recorded in New York and dropped into the telecast. That was a year after CBC ran halftime highlights, albeit at full speed, during a Grey Cup telecast.

Ampex developed the disk recorder, which held 30 seconds of video, to make replays less cumbersome to show. It could also show slow-motion in color, which wasn't possible with the Trachinger system.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
The CBC replays were via a "Hot Kinescope" process (explained in the You Tube clip).
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Which was really pressing at the limits of the chemistry of how quickly you could process
a roll of black-and-white reversal film.
 
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