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Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York cuts the tape to open NBC's new color TV studio in Brooklyn. Assisting ore Betty Hutton and, at right, NBC President Sylvester L. Weaver, Jr., and Robert W. Sarnoff, Executive Vice President. World's Largest TV Studio Opened by NBC for Color A ONE-TIME motion picture studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., has reopened for business as the world's largest and most moderen television studio, completely equipped for programming for the new era of color. The studio is the National Broadcasting Company's new color production center, acquired from Warner Brothers and converted at a cost of S.t.500,000 to handle NBC's unprecedented series of thirty-three "spectaculars" — ninety-minute color programs of a scope never before presented on a regular basis. Formal dedication of the vast studio took place on September 9, when Mayor Robert F. 'Wagner of New York cut the ceremonial ribbon and described the new center as "a fine new showcase for the best New York has to offer in the theatre arts." Participating with Mayor "Wagner in the ceremony were Sylvester L. "Weaver, Jr., President of NBC, Robert W. Sarnoff. NBC's Executive "Vice-President, and actress Betty Hut- ton, who starred on September 12 in the first of the new "spectaculars." The opening of the Brooklyn production center widens further the margin of NBC leadership in color programming facilities. These already include the Colonial Theatre in New York, the world's first fully- equipped studio for compatible color; Studio 3-H in Radio City, used for smaller productions, commercials, and research in staging, lighting, costuming and make- up; a mobile color unit, the only one of its kind in existence, used for outdoor coverage of special events remote from studios, and RCA three "Vidicon multiple film projectors capable of handling 35- and 16-milli- meter color film and slides. By the end of the year, the present facilities will be augmented by another large studio being equipped by NBC in Burbank, Calif., to tap the reservoir of Hollywood talent for "spectaculars" and other color programs. Number of Unique Features Several unique features have been built by NBC into the huge Brooklyn center, among them the most elabo- rate lighting system in the industry — 900 circuits with a capacity of 960,000 watts, or enough to light a com- munity of 3,000 homes. The lighting is arranged in a grid system whose components can be raised or lowered by electric hoists controlled remotely from a lighting "bridge." There are 126 such hoists, capable of handling 75,000 pounds of lighting equipment. This push-button hoist arrange- ment was developed by NBC engineers. It permits indi- vidual height adjustment of 63 groups of lights and the pre-setting of heights for 10 scenes. 8 rad;o age