History of TV/Telecine

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please note this section in active development Oct. 2009


Contents

Kevin Shaw's Colorist History page

Nostalgia for Color Grading Systems

Bill Topazio contributed this photo of a licensed (for secondaries) 32-channel Dubner control panel.

Working Dubner

Rob Houllahan sent these photos of his Dubner, in service and functioning.


Assorted Information from TIG archives

Transfomania In 1998, at a facility in NYC, an historic event took place....

Flying Spot History from Peter Swinson

Spotlight Scanner

Pictures of John Logie Baird's Spotlight Scanner with commentary from Peter Swinson.

John Logie Baird

Additional commentary about Baird from Peter Swinson with more photos.

More on the Crystal Palace here: BairdCrystalPalaceControlRoomAnnotated

Misc. TV History

Color TV History: http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/

TV Camera History: http://www.pharis-video.com/index.htm

Links from Dave Corbitt

  • Steve McVoy's Early Television Museum in Hilliard, Ohio is worth the trip from anywhere to see the most amazing collection of historic television cameras and receivers anywhere. He even has a color mechanical TV display based on spinning mirrors and concepts developed in the 1920's. He has pre WWII sets with mirrors in the lids and the CRTs facing up. He has a whole section devoted to early color TV from before 1958 with many great looking early color sets, many of them functioning. He has a Dumont B&W TV from 1950 with an enormous 30" screen that works and is amazing to see. It goes on and on. I visited the museum a few weeks back while traveling through the Columbus area on a business trip. Steve is a good guy and deserves more visits from TIGers. His webpages are here: http://www.earlytelevision.org/
  • Pete Deksnis has some pages devoted to his unending quest to restore the earliest color TV sets mass marketed in this country, the CT-100 made by RCA in early 1954: http://home.att.net/~pldexnis/
  • The website you referred to is maintained by Ed Reitan who used to live in Westwood, CA but he has moved back to Omaha recently. Ed is an interesting guy who has a storehouse of info on the history of early color TV. He had some amazing old TV gear in his apartment in Westwood including a TK 41 camera and several early color sets from the mid 1950's. His webpages are here as you posted before: http://www.novia.net/~ereitan

The Festa Tree

This picture file, produced using AnyWikiDraw, occasionally lost and then recovered, has been reincluded here because the latest version of AnyWikiDraw is now compatible with the current version of MediaWiki and PHP. It represents the colorist progeny of colorist archetype Bob Festa. Thanks to Dwaine Maggart for finding the file. It can be redrawn with updates by any wiki user. NOTE: uses Java and depending on your connection speed may take a little time to load.


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Rob Lingelbach 01:09, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

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