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he 50-Yard Line Portable camera cruises sidelines for shots of crowd and band, as well as the game. by Tom E. Gallery NBC Sports Director Xf you want a seat high up on the 50-yard-line at some of the best college football games this Fall, just flip on your television set to your local NBC channel. For the sixth time in seven years, NBC-TV is televising the schedule of football games approved by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Four of the eight nationally televised games are being presented in color, as well as black-and-white. Color television adds another dimension to all sports, but in football it is of special value because it provides a better means of identifying the players. The enjoy- ment of the game, the halftime show and other attrac- tions that make college football such a great spectacle are vastly enhanced by color. The NCAA series again take the nation's gridiron fans to all sections of the country. With the experience gained from past years of telecasting the "Game of the Week," we at NBC have developed a production technique which — regardless of where the ball is in play on the field — provides the televiewer with what amounts to the choicest seat in any stadium. Long before college football squads took their first opening practice licks at the tackling dummy, NBC- TVs staff of sports production experts was hard at work mapping plans for the football coverage. As early as May, Perry Smith, who produces the grid telecasts, started work on the football project, along with director Harry Coyle. During the Summer, they surveyed the stadiums involved in the TV schedule. They checked press-box facilities, picked camera loca- tions, arranged for transmission lines and made all the other necessary plans for placing the remote equipment. Most of the games on this season's schedule will be covered by a mobile unit from NBC's New York head- quarters. Others will be handled by the NBC-owned or affiliated station in the area. For the games televised in color as well as black-and-white, NBC's color mobile unit will be used. The custom-designed unit is the only one of its kind in network TV. Four Cameras In Use NBC personnel, headed by Smith and Coyle, usually arrive at the stadium on the Thursday preceding the Saturday game. The mobile unit is parked outside the stadium, and the engineers' first task is to make the complex installation of cameras, cables and micro- phones. Four cameras are used to cover the games. Two cameras are placed atop the press box at the 50-yard- line and two more are located at each 20-yard-line. The cameras are spotted in this way so that as the play moves up or down the field, the televiewer is assured of a "ringside" view. One of the cameras at the mid- field stripe can call on a 40-inch-telephoto lens which 20 ELECTRONIC AGE