On Jul 23, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Kevin M. wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: >> But then there was a clip from a September 1974 "Nightly News" with John >> Chancellor announcing Mrs. Ford's breast cancer diagnosis. One problem with >> the Chancellor clip, though: it was a black and white kinescope of a color >> broadcast! I was really surprised that they didn't have good quality video >> of their newscast from such a late date. It makes me wonder how well they're >> preserving those archives. > > NBC didn't archive their shows in those days and since few owned > videotape machines in the homes, most archives footage from that era > was from kinescopes pointed at TV sets.
Nitpick: a "kinescope" is the filmed recording of a TV show that results from pointing a specially set-up 16-millimeter film camera at a monitor (the two have to be synchronized so that the scan lines don't appear) -- a kinescope is not in and of itself something that can be pointed at a TV set. When you see footage of a '70s network newscast that's in black and white -- especially if it has a time/date stamp at the top of the screen -- that's a very good indication that it came from the Vanderbilt University TV news archives. Vanderbilt had black-and-white videotape machines in the '70s, which they used to record the network newscasts. -- Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> <http://www.ellwanger.tv/> -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
