Broadcasting Telecasting (Jul-Sep 1957)
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FIRST MONTH'S MOVIES IN BARTLESVILLE
FIRST RUN FEATURES (ON CHANNEL 3)
Onte of
Source of
Title Length in
Picture
(and Stars) Minutes
9/3-4
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"Pajama Game" (Doris Day, John Raitt)
95
9/5-6
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"Night Passage" (James Stewart, Audie
90
Murphy)
9/7
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"The Great Man" (Jose Ferrer, Dean
92
Jagger, Julie London)
9/8-10
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"Band of Angels" (Clark Gable, Yvonne
DeCarlo)
127
9/11-12
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"Joe Dakota" (Jock Mahoney, Laune Patton)
79
9/13-14
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"Dino" (Sal Mineo, Brian Keith)
96
9/15-17
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"Jeanne Eagels" (Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler)
109
9/18-19
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"Untamed Youth" (Mamie Van Doren, Lori
79
Nelson)
9/20-21
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"Run of the Arrow" (Rod Steiger, Sarita
85
Montiel)
9/22-24
Warner Bros.
"Face in the Crowd" (Andy Griffith,
125
Patricia Neal)
9/25-26
Universal
"Midnight Story" (Tony Curtis, Marissa
89
Pavan)
9/27-28
Warner Bros.
"The D. I." (Jack Webb, Monica Lewis)
106
9/29
Warner Bros.
"The Prince and the Showgirl" (Marilyn
117
10/1
Monroe, Sir Lawrence Olivier)
1 0 /2-3
United Artists
"Trooper Hook" (Barbara Stanwyck, Joel
81
McCrea)
RE-RUN FEATURES (ON CHANNEL 5)
Source of
Title Length in
Picture
(and Stars) Minutes
9/3-4
Universal
"Mississippi Gambler" (Tyrone Power, Piper
98
Laurie)
9/5-6
Warner Bros.
"Three Sailors and a Girl" (Gordon MacRae,
98
Jane Powell)
9/7-8
Warner Bros.
"So Big" (Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden)
101
9/9
Universal
"Meet Me at the Fair" (Dan Dailey, Diana
87
Lynn)
9/10-11
Universal
"Francis Covers the Big Town" (Donald
86
O'Connor)
9/12-13
Warner Bros.
"Lucky Me" (Doris Day, Robert Cummings)
109
9/14-15
Allied Artists
"Jack Slade" (Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone)
90
9/16
Columbia
"Let's Do It Again" (Jane Wyman, Ray
94
Milland)
9/17-18
Allied Artists
"Wichita" (Joel McCrea, Vera Miles)
81
9/19-20
Columbia
"Prize of Gold" (Richard Widmark, Mai
98
Zetterling)
9/21-22
Warner Bros.
"Boy from Oklahoma" (Will Rogers Jr.,
88
Nancy Olson)
9/23
Columbia
"Pushover" (Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey,
88
Kim Novak)
9/24-25
Warner Bros.
"Calamity Jane" (Doris Day, Howard Keel)
101
9 /26-27
Universal
"Abbott and Costello Go to Mars"
77
9/28-29
Universal
"Susan Slept Here" (Debbie Reynolds, Dick
97
Powell)
9/30
Allied Artists
"Paris Playboys" (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall)
62
In the back of the theatre, which retains the offices of Video's Bartlesville four-house branch, is a 200-seat auditorium, with the stage bare of the silver screen. A closed-circuit type camera chain is scheduled to be installed to serve live origination for local civic events and community affairs.
The technical equipment is mainly General Precision Lab. The film projectors arc standard 35mm theatre-type, XL camera projectors, modified to handle tv transmissions. They use a 3-2 shutter intermittent movement to synchronize the theatrical films' speed of 24 frames per second to video's speed of 30-frames per second.
To handle wide-screen theatrical film — Cinemascope and Vista Vision — GPL installed a unique scancontrol circuit which electronically alters the vidicon camera's sweep. This is done with a series of pre-set buttons. The usual 2:1 aspect ratio of the film is swept by the camera on a 1.3:1 ratio. This results in a distortionless normal 4:3 aspect ratio on the tv screen.
In layman's language, the wide-screen picture is slightly cropped on the sides. The picture seemed normal, although there appeared to be a very slight elongation.
Above the control console, which is situated immediately in the forefront of the Telemovies' studio, is a bank of three 21 -in. Motorola tv receivers. They are hung from the ceiling, tilted downward.
The power supplies are by Adler Communications Lab.; the sync generators by Pye Ltd.; the bar-dot generator by Tel-Instrument Corp., and the modulators by Jerrold. The tape recorder is a Muzak piece of gear, and the slide projector is by Gray Research & Development Inc.
The cost of remodeling the theatre and the equipment is estimated at $90,000.
The outgoing Telemovies signal is fed from the origination center to a trunk coaxial line attached to telephone poles which run through the city's streets. This signal is given a shot-in-the arm every 1,700-ft. or so by amplifiers mounted along the line. Feeder lines branch off the trunk line down backyard alleys, and tap-off lines run from the feeder lines to the homes of subscribers. This plant is an all Jerrold Electronic Corp. installation. The connection is made to the subscriber's television receiver through the use of a coaxial switch, manufactured by Electronics International Inc., Oklahoma City, which Video's president and vice president control. The switch is attached to antenna input terminals of the receiver, and the movement of the power-switch type handle from one side to the other makes the proper connection to the off-air antenna or the Telemovies wire line. The switch assembly contains a transformer which matches the 72-ohm impedance of the Telemovies coaxial cable to the receiver's 300-ohm requirement.
The outside plant was built by Southwestern Bell Telegraph & Telephone Co., which leases the Hues to Video for $1,000 per month per mile. The installation was built by Video's community television system subsidiary, Vumore Inc., for the telephone company at cost plus 10%. The cost was estimated at $150,000.
Broadcasting • Telecasting
Profile on the Operators
The man who leads Video Independent Theatres Inc. is an over-six-ft. tall, rangy DaUas-born lawyer who looks and acts like a Back Bay Boston brahmin. Even his features have a rugged. New England look.
Withal his Harvard appearance, Henry Scherer GriSing is as Texan as oil, cotton, and the Alamo. He was born in 1907 and attended Rice U. in Dallas and Oklahoma U. in Norman, where he took his law degree in 1930. After law school he joined the
prominent Oklahoma City law firm of Keaton, Wells & Johnson. In 1939, he entered private practice, becoming general counsel for the then giant southwest motion picture Griffith chain.
In 1949, after the elder Mr. Griffith had become ill, Mr. Griffing and his associates (C. O. Fulgham, C. R. Guthrie are top level assistants among his associates) bought what was then the 250-theatre Griffith Amusement Circuit. It now comprises 140odd conventional theatres and 63 drive-ins
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