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KTTV state-of-the-art circa 1961

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stevezodiac

Here's a great YouTube link I ran across. It's KTTV 11 in LA, showing how videotape and state-of-the-art video special effects could benefit future advertisers in 1961. Pretty cool stuff! 8)

What's really weird is that it's on a kinescope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZUbtrZUAY8&feature=related
 
That is great, Mr. Zodiac. A bit of history. But I don't think it's a kine - the picture quality is too good. It think it's what Mr. Vrba describes at the end of his sales pitch - "a film transfer from television tape."

They probably transfered it to film so it could be sent to potential advertisers who would not have been able to view it on tape, since they would not have had videotape players in those days...but probably did have 16mm film projectors sitting around.
 
Lkeller said:
That is great, Mr. Zodiac. A bit of history. But I don't think it's a kine - the picture quality is too good. It think it's what Mr. Vrba describes at the end of his sales pitch - "a film transfer from television tape."
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Which is....um...a kinescope. I mean, how else could you transfer tape to film in 1961? Certainly not digitally, and not even electronically -- you still had to point a lens at a monitor, right? The quality may have been better because it was more carefully done than the "on the fly" kine where time was often of the essence, but the basic process would have been the same.
 
"...how else could you transfer tape to film in 1961? Certainly not digitally, and not even electronically -- you still had to point a lens at a monitor, right?"

You may be right...I'll have to admit that I'm ignorant regarding the history of TV technology. I assumed there was some electronic means by the early 60s.
 
Unfortunately, I could only watch about 6 seconds at a time before it would stop to rebuffer, and then it stopped altogether at about :20 in...interesting while it lasted... ???
 
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