Business screen magazine (1946)

lilms. network officials say. NBC 'recorded rescue operations at Stamilord, Connecticut, during one of the illarkest days of the New England 1 floods. Indoor tests made with Anscoi|;hronie tungsten film, with available :j|ight (no supplementary lighting jjvas used I pictured a session inside ill chamber of the United Nations, ilind a hockey game at a large in5 loor sports arena, dramatizing the jersatility of the film. S Chicago Art Directors' TV .Ward to Animation, Inc. Spot ►The Chiccif;.. \rl Directors' Club dr.lal Award for outstanding tele i-iiiTi commercials has been won by \riiiiiation, Inc. \\ inning spot in the animated arloon division, the film was made i\ producer Earl Klein for the W. B. 'miht Agency of Detroit. G.E. Scanner System Designed to Expedite TV Colorcasting ■♦f Commercial production of a new film and slidefilm system for tele\ ision stations now is underway at General Electric Company. Designed primarily for color film and slide programming, the new system mav be installed initially to handle monochrome film and slides. .Additional components can be added at a later date for progranuning color film and slides. Originally announced in May, 1954. the new G.E. film and slide equipment has been undergoing refinement at Electronics Park. Syracuse, N.Y., and field tests at television station KING-T\'. Seattle, Washington. The new equipment uses a 16mni continuous motion picture projector, developed by Eastman Kodak Company to function with the system's electronic fl\ing spot which is its light source and film scanner. Outstanding features claimed for the system are its freedom from registration problems, high light level and automatic, mechanical and optical, shrinkage control — said to allow broadcasters programming of a wider variety of color film. According to G.E. engineers, the combination of the flying spot scanner system, highlv efficient mirrors and a special f 1.6 lens is sufficient to provide ample light for a clean, bright and crisp picture from even the most dense and difficult color film. All of the parts of the system are designed in building block form. The blocks include a film scanner, a slide scanner and a scanner channel. This design allows a tv station to build its local color film pro gramming facilities one step at a time. The scanner channel is common to both the color fibn and slide equipment. A broadcaster can install the scanner channel and color slide system for local color advertising. Later, color film originating equipment can be added. The motion picture projector on which the new system is based makes possible lap-dissolves from one frame to the next by means of a rotating mirror system. These mirrors reflect more than 95 percent of the source light. They are used to cause the films to appear stationary, allowing the system to be started or stopped on any frame without synchronizing the movement of the film with the field rate before the picture is telecast. The equipment has no difficult color adjustment. Framing is ac(CONTINUED ON P.\CE 32) NUMBER 1 VOLUME 17 1956 31