[78-L] ^Survival of anything from The Best of Broadway (1954-55)

[Michael Biel]

Are you sure about this?  According to Ed Reitan, CBS got 2 RCA TK-40A
cameras in Feb 1954 for Studio 71, with the balance of the order of 12
by June 54.  While there was some use of the Chromacorder thru March 55,
a program like this would probably have been done on the TK-40As.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] ^Survival of anything from The Best of Broadway
(1954-55)
From: David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, June 29, 2010 11:13 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>


--- On Mon, 6/28/10, David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> These were color broadcasts and done live. As they were
> made before the advent of videotape I suspect they won't
> have survived, but I'm curious as to whether any are known
> extant as black and white kinescopes. 

The 1954-1955 time frame suggests that these were broadcast
with the CBS Chromacorder system, which converted CBS's
field sequential color system to NTSC-2 color. The original
field-sequential video could conceivably be recorded on
monochrome film as/before it was converted to NTSC, and
since about the only way to make that conversion was to use 
camera (probably vidicon) tubes aimed at kinescope tubes,
the quality of such a kinescope would be much better than
any recording made off the NTSC result (much like the
original slow-scan Apollo 11 video). That doesn't, of
course, mean that such a recording was made.

 


 
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