This is Part 2 of our 5 part series that Cinecraft for The Austin Company. Part 2 explores how the TV camera worked.
The film shows in comprehensible detail through simple animation how the electronic picture of a TV image is captured. Iconoscope and Image orthicon imagining tubes, electron guns traveling at 10,000 mph…fun images and facts to geek out over.
The short Flashback version merely teases the real geeky tech stuff. So watch the 5 minute version for all the technical glory. And the great animation.
I recognized the Voice Over narrator on this film as Tom Field. Tom had worked at various radio stations in Youngstown and Canton. He had a daily radio program as the Sohio Reporter. After serving in the in the Army during WWII, he came back to Northeastern Ohio and in 1948 he was a radio announcer at WTAM Cleveland. He moved into TV with WNBK (Later KYW, now WKYC-TV) Tom moved to WEWS-TV and anchored the 11PM news for 10 years. He was a mainstay of early Cleveland news. I remember him from his TV-5 days.
For more about Tom Field, here are a couple of links.
clevelandclassi...
www.cabclevelan...
In the next 3 weeks of Cinecraft Flashback Fridays we will feature the rest of the Television Televised series.
Part 3 looks at the Control room and crew involved and how a 3 camera shoot is organized.
Part 4 details the transmission of the electronic signal from the TV studio to your TV set.
Part 5 shows how TV gets made outside of the studio with a location production truck.
Each segment ends with a brief plug for The Austin Company. Besides creating many of the TV stations in those early days, The Austin Company created GE’s Nela Park campus. The final tag line is…The Austin Company builds small buildings and large for all the great industries that make America great.
-Neil
30 окт 2024
