[78-L] Kinescopes (WAS Average Age)

Thu Nov 18 13:22:52 PST 2010

I think there was a Roberts (Akai?) that was brielf available and had a 
fixed head for B/W home recording. I don't remember tape speed now, 
perhaps it was 17 ips or some thing similar? I seem to recall max time 
was 1/2 hour

joe salerno

On 11/17/2010 9:50 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> There was also a machine that used open reel quarter inch tape in the late 70s.
> I only saw one in home use..anyone know what it was? Seems to me it would
> record for less than a half hour.
>
> dl
>
> On 11/17/2010 10:11 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
>> I believe that would be a 1/2" OR video tape. I remember using one once
>> when I had a teaching job to record myself for self evaluation. Video is
>> wonderfu for that. That machine was rather old I believe, because that
>> would have been '77 or '78, when U-matic was well established. But small
>> colleges don't buy expensive new equipment when what they have still
>> work well.
>>
>> Perhaps you should start transferring all those old VHS to DVD.
>>
>> joe salerno
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/16/2010 6:35 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>> My high school in Deer Park Texas had a Sony U--Matic recorder as well as a half
>>> inch wide (maybe one inch wide) reel to reel video recorder that used 7 inch
>>> reels for it's tapes. It was there when I graduated in 1978. The U-Matic&
>>> sometimes the reel to reel machine were used to record programs for later
>>> viewing during class time via the closed circuit TV syatem.
>>>
>>> Oh&    I'd love to get a copy on a DVD-R of that CBS "When TV Was Young" program!!
>>> Perhaps Mike B could make one for me? Or even an SP speed VHS tape copy would
>>> do.
>>>
>>> In 1979 I was in college&    the library let me order titles of educational stuff
>>> on U-matic which I copied (in the library with an RCA VJP 900 dockable recorder
>>> with the tuner timer unit left at home) to SP speed VHS tapes. Several Nova
>>> programs were copied as well as a Beach Boys concert&    other stuff. I still have
>>> those copied tapes after all these years......
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Michael Biel<mbiel at mbiel.com>
>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 5:58:48 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Kinescopes (WAS Average Age)
>>>
>>> From: Randy Watts<rew1014 at yahoo.com>
>>>> I don't know when broadcasters stopped airing kinescopes, but they were
>>>> still being made into the 1970s. A film collector I used to know owned
>>>> black and white kines of two early "All in the Family" episodes. Perhaps
>>>> kinescopes retained a practical value in the days before videocassettes
>>>> when reference copies were required. A 16mm print of a television show
>>>> would have been easier, and more portable, to deal with than the same
>>>> show on videotape.  Randy
>>>
>>> By the mid-70s the 3/4-inch U-matic was everywhere in every TV execs
>>> office, so the kine was obsolete for checking purposes.  There may still
>>> have been a market in the educational film library field, such as McGraw
>>> Hill Young America Films which included a lot of CBS documentaries in
>>> their catalog.
>>>
>>> The 1975 CBS program "When TV Was Young" has a great opening sequence
>>> with Charles Kurault in a videotape room with a quad machine.  He
>>> explains that he is the recorded Kurault because he is home watching
>>> this like you are.  Then they remove the color because most of the shows
>>> to be discussed were in B&W.  Then he walks over to a Kinescope Film
>>> Recorder and we see him via a kine!  It very well might have been the
>>> last time that kine recorder was used!!!  The scene continues with him
>>> walking thru a huge warehouse of kines.  The rest of the show is pretty
>>> good, too, the best analysis and summary of the years of live TV, much
>>> better than the anniversary shows the following two years.  There is a
>>> masterful analysis of the camera angles and blocking of one of the
>>> scenes of Requiem For A Heavyweight.  I used to show it in broadcast
>>> history class every year.
>>>
>>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 11/15/10, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kines existed later than we might
>>>> think. I can remember watching Ernie Kovacs
>>>> on (most likely) Channel 7 in Buffalo in the early 60s and
>>>> the quality was
>>>> horrible..it was still coming to them on kinescope. And the
>>>> CBC was late to get
>>>> videotape..Ed Sullivan taped a special piece to run on the
>>>> Wayne&    Shuster show
>>>> up here, after their early successes on his show, and sent
>>>> it to Toronto (my
>>>> mother may actually have been the mule). The Corpse had to
>>>> find somebody to
>>>> transfer it to FILLUM so they could run it live. Needless
>>>> to say, it looked awful.
>>>>
>>>> Hey, I regularly write about things I know nothing about.
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>
>>>
>>
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