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-o- TV TECHNICAL TIPS NO. 10 July, 19tt By Cecil S. Bidlack, NAEB TV Engineer The NAEB Engineering Committee, as this is written, is considering applications for the 1955 NAEB TV Engineering Workshop. However,its decision on the participants will not be made in time for us to include the names of successful applicants in this issue of the Newsletter . Individuals will be notified as soon as a decision is reached, and the entire list of successful applicants will be published next month. The Workshop will be held at WKAR-TV at Ea:,t Lansing, Michigan. Briefly, the program of this year’s Workshop has been set up to cover various phases of TV engineering on the five days of the week of September 12-16. The Monday morning session will cover lighting, with talks on lighting fundamentals and measure¬ ment, TV lighting equipment, and TV lighting. Monday afternoon topics are inter¬ communication systems, switching systems, production-engineering relationships and personnel problems. Monday evening will be given over to a round table dis¬ cussion of the day’s program. Tuesday and Wednesday have been set aside for kinescope recording. Tuesday morning topics ares general considerations for making kinescope recordings, kinescope re¬ cording systems, and a demonstration of operating practices on the WKAR-TV kine recorder. Tuesday afternoon talks cover film cameras, magnetic sound recording, optical sound recording and kinescope quality control. The Tuesday evening ses¬ sion will cover kinescope faults and shortcomings with film clips from the ETRC at Arm Arbor. Wednesday morning the WKAR-TV crew will demonstrate lighting, re- hersal and the actual kinescope filming of several types of TV program material.. Wednesday afternoon topics cover photographic aspects of kinescope recording, film processing and electronic gray scale for quality control. A trip to the local film processing plant is also scheduled. A round table session covering the day’s activi¬ ties is scheduled for Wednesday evening. Thursday’s general theme is transmitters, with the morning session devoted to proof of performance measurements. Thursday afternoon will feature a round table on transmitter operation, adjustment, and maintenance as well as a discussion of con¬ siderations of microwave installations and a description of systems in actual use. Thursday evening. Workshop participants will get together at a dinner meeting at the Kellogg Center. Friday morning’s session covers film pick-up devices and includes vidicon cameras and flying spot scanners. The new Du Mont Vitascan system will be discussed as well as a low power TV package. The morning session ends with a talk on TV test equip¬ ment. At the afternoon session the kinescope recording made Wednesday morning will be shown and discussed. Workshop participants will be expected to arrive Sunday afternoon or evening for room assignments at Butterfield Dormitory, a new men’s dormitory a short walk from the WKAR-TV studios. An informal coffee hour will be held Sunday evening at Kellogg Center which is just across the street from Butterfield Eormitory. This will enable participants to register for the Workshop and offer the opportunity to get acquainted before the opening Workshop session on Monday morning.