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transmitter by a messenger service. Facilities for the film make-up are included in the transmitter film room, and all technicians are familiar with the techniques.
Film Program Coordination and Responsibility
In order to achieve a semiautomatic film-room operation, it was necessary to devise a simple and complete operating work schedule. A simplified version of the schedule is shown in Fig. 6.
This work schedule was designed by KRON-TV technical operating and program personnel and includes all the necessary information regarding any equipment or facility requirements for a given program. The schedule is prepared several days in advance of the broadcast day by the Traffic Department from information supplied by the Sales and Program Departments. It is submitted to the transmitter video-control supervisor who checks the schedule with respect to film and slide equipment and personnel requirements and for any situations which are apt to cause operating difficulty. Such situations might be the scheduling of the use of a 35mm filmstrip or opaque projection material at times when only two technicians are assigned at the transmitter. Such a situation may require the scheduling of another technician to cover the film room since the film-strip and opaque projectors are manually operated. Their use is infrequent, hence there has been no need for adding automatic features to them.
While checking the work schedule, the video-control supervisor marks it to assign the slides to the remotely controlled slide projectors and to indicate the desired splicing order for the various films. It is common practice to have a 10-sec film station identification spliced to a 20-sec commercial spot which is in turn spliced to a feature film or kine recording. With the large reels, over an hour and a half of film including spots,
Fig. 9. When the reels are ready, they are placed in these "cans" which are then locked and shipped to the station's transmitter by a messenger service. Transcriptions, records and mail are also inserted in these "cans."
station identifications, etc., can be spliced together. This work is normally done by full-time film editors at the downtown studios (Figs. 7 and 8). The responsibility for the receiving, inspection, cleaning, editing, splicing and shipping of the film is thus principally that of the program department, and the technicians treat the prepared film program material as though it were a transcription. The degree to which the large reels are used and the amount of splicing required depends upon the availability of technical personnel. If an extra man is available for film-room duty, he can be assigned and the film room can be operated on the basis of numerous short reels in succession. However, the smooth integration of 10-sec and 20-sec commercials into a 30-sec station break is greatly simplified by splicing them to the longer films.
Isberg: TV Station Film Operation
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