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Kjl Sir >ii "FILM CENTRAL" for network operations. From this control room all the ABC film shows are fed to affiliates. How ABC-TV gets top picture quality for all its network film shows .... Converts 100% to RCA Vidicon Film Camera Chains! ality we require in our network film . A Vidicon film equipment," says Engineering. They were tetwork film purchase r;lm equipment to he highest pic turequal k line. Popular film shows lik< rery oest treat. ment, which pays oil ABC first made careful tests oi i \ equipment. RCA Vidicon film camera chain. owt d up in first place. Frank Marx summed it up like this, "In all our tests RCA Vidicon equipment proved best. We feel we moved miles ahead in film programming quality when we installed these modern Vidicon chains at all our stations." Their first two chains were delivered in October, 1954, for the Disneyland opening in New York. Other chains soon followed. Then, in December, 1957, they decided to go "all the way" at all their stations. Today, ABC-TV is 100% RCA Vidicon. The results speak for themselves.