by Mike Cleaver » Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:18 pm
And even earlier than black and white and colour slides and 16mm film and quad videotape there were: Art cards on an easel, shot with the studio camera and the balop machine, pieces of glass with photos taped to them and put into a rotatable four slot wheel to be shot by the telecine camera.
Early TV was a blast, no teleprompters, no green screen, live camera people, cable pullers and floor directors and lighting directors, switchers, audio people, artists, set designers and builders (mostly out of cardboard,) costumers, make up people, engineers, still and film photographers and film processors and editors plus all the support staff, writers, producers, secretaries, script people and many more.
Nowadays, there are no real sets, just computer generated dreck over a green screen, robocams, automated lighting and your master control room is in another city many kilometres away.
Thanks for the memories of those long ago days when many creative people produced the incredible images we saw on our first TV's.
Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services
Engineering, News, Voice work and Consulting
Vancouver, BC, Canada
54 years experience at some of Canada's Premier Broadcasting Stations