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Viewmaster wrote:The recording and playback of moving pictures has always been a fascinating mixture of electronics and mechanics, that is why I find NBTV so interesting.
Viewmaster wrote:When solid state memory is built into digital video cameras for recording we may be there at last, but then the optical zoom lens will be a mechanical device, so mechanics will still move us!
Albert.
Viewmaster wrote:The Maltese Cross mechanism in 35mm cine projectors, the risky claw positioning in the centre of 9.5mm film that always threatened to rip the film to shreads! Revolving syncronised shutters. The fine slit behind the photocell.
Big watts cinema amplifiers from the past with huge PX4s in push pull etc Spluttering arc lamps. MARs etc.
All great historic mech. and elect. items.
Albert.
Steve Anderson wrote:I think that you and my father should go down to the pub and have a good long yarn. I'm sure you would both enjoy it. He was a projectionist at the Hammersmith Odeon in the 50s when it was still a cinema.
He is 71.
Steve A.
AncientBrit wrote:I dealt with Zonal when I spent 6 years working at EVR (Electonic video recording) in the mastering section.
Graham
Viewmaster wrote:I must have seen many of your father's projected films at the Hammersmith Odeon, as I lived at Shepherds Bush, about a mile away, for 20 years from 1940. Small world.
Albert.
Steve Anderson wrote:Viewmaster wrote:I must have seen many of your father's projected films at the Hammersmith Odeon, as I lived at Shepherds Bush, about a mile away, for 20 years from 1940. Small world.
Albert.
...and I have done a lot of work for the BBC at White City, just up the road, a few decades ago. Somewhere I still have a BBC pass, surely expired by now.
Steve A.
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