KTTV - Television Tape - Early TV effects demo

[shawnbroes]

Good stuff-



[jorjaohenriques1]

1961 Eu era felíz e não sabia!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[t0nito]

big ass windows live movie maker!

[sennheisermike]

And it's not expensive!!!!!!

[TheCrimsonsGhosts]

Things are now looking up.

[MrDoregore]

Still better than Avatar...

[TheZupish]

00:58 prototype of segway on the left

[altfactor]

Maybe KTTV used videotape gear from someone other than Ampex.

For some years, RCA used the term "television tape" for the videotape gear.

[Iccarus72]

I really dig the Music

[FORRESTJASPER]

I love the 'Hey Now Daddyo'-esque big band jazz combo music cue that crashes in during the showcasing of mrchdse. demo. It totally sets the pace for the bold & exciting world of videotape, um, excuse me "Television Tape" whose easy editing & inexpensiveness was being sold here by a private/independent studio. That same bawdy jazz sound slowly started to creep it's way back into TV advertising again during the latter portion of the "big" '90's & through to the mid "0h-0h's. Great stuff, Thanks!

[andremp03]

'And its NOT expensive' lol

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

very interesting

someone else mislabeled it and posted it elsewhere

[parnellitube]

Edited on "television" tape, transferred to film, digitized and uploaded on Youtube! Kinda funny.

[nicolaj0154]

so chroma key have existed in back in the days.

[TRANYG]

Click! Cue Stock Hep Cat Big Band Music On 1

[analyzingfunny]

Interesting. I did not know Ampex had the word "videotape" patented.

[52ofem]

You can't patent words. You can trademark them though.

[veditanimal]

And many "I have a computer and can edit" types still use those cheesy effects today. Wow, progress!

[teamforteress]

geez so true

[ivanofna]

no proper movie ever used these effects after the 50s and 60s, and even then only blockbusters used them.

[OldVideoPro]

There is no transition effect more "invisible" than a properly timed cut! :-)

[p3945u5]

Awesome.

[Robert08010]

Should I be embarrassed that up until this year I was using a GV-110 that has all these wipe paterns? Overlay camera 6 which is pointed at a printed graphic on a easle board and luma-keyed over the video...

[rnigma]

The KTTV studio was later known as Metromedia Square (CBS shot some shows there in the '70s), and Fox Square after NewsCorp bought it.

[sooperdon]

That's some snazzy music. Makes me want to cut a rug.

[fromthesidelines]

Very interesting that this "demo reel" was videotaped, and preserved on kinescope film, as I'm certain the original tape doesn't exist.

[coffeehigh420]

"ehh, dames who needs em', this is what i'm interested in... TELEVISION TAPE !! "

[coffeehigh420]

hahaha

[visaman]

Ahh, dames, who needs them?

[jcatlett1976]

Around $55,000 for one machine...And it's not expensive lol...$1,2000 PC with better effects for practically free!! How times have changed, we forget how easy we have it now. We take too many things for granted and the ease of video editing is just one of them.

[Superbatfa]

Nowadays, everything that they did can be done on a home computer, and in COLOR!

[leptadlo]

Go ahead.

Sorry for marking your comment down. It was not that easy to mistake the button/toggle in those days.

[mubd1234]

Wow. Starwipes were...AMAZING back then!

[BopFanatic]

I love the way the production is so creative and so brilliantly executed like that. Geniuses.

[bertskoi]

Hey! Dig that CRAZY band! It's just KOOKY!

Thanks!

[masterhalco]

This technology remained largely unaltered until digital started to take over after 2000.

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

As far as quadruplex videotape machines, that technology was on the way out in the late 70's and early 80's. Those old 2-inch tape 'quad' machines, such as the ones shown here, were replaced by 1-inch tape helical-scan VTR's such as the Ampex VPR-3 and Sony's helical-scan VTR's. Now VTR's are usually HDCAM machines and video storage units.

[coffeehigh420]

your right. even today i still use the same equipment and style of editing (and i'm charging $2500 per job).

i love using black and white videocameras and the people LOVE the quality of the 1960's video for some reason and they pay up for it !

[madmoses59]

I rememver that from college days(radio and TV Broadcasting)

[mosaicproductions]

I'm floored that this was in '61.

[Witheredgoogie]

The kinoscopes still exist because the tape has fell to bits in many cases, its as simple as that.

[VideoJunkei]

I bet the original tape quality is much better than this!!!

[gatinete]

Unbelievable!! T.V is really magic and it's been all made possible thanks to stations like KTTV,quite a Monumental feat.

[tapewolf]

My god. I didn't think they had that level of effects technology until they went solid-state.

[ReadDoug]

Thats kind of what I was thinking, some of this looks like photoshop and Flash work. And, its not expensive!

[K0CBS]

I like KTTV's version of Divorce Court better then the one currently on the air!

[bertskoi]

I'm guessing '59 - '60? I love the old Ampex Reel to Reel video machines, very impressive. To think they came out with those in '54 is mind boggling. Too bad it was expensive to keep tape then, most were reused over and over (until destroyed) and not much is left to us of that period in television history, seen as it was, clear and devoid of defects, as we see in 2nd, 3rd & even 4th generation kinescopes, too bad.

Thanks for the great film about video!

[slpcable]

Hmm, tape eh?

Golly, why is this a kinescope, recorded on film?

Hmmmm

[blinkingblythe]

Because video machines weren't widespread yet, and most of their clients were still using 16mm projectors.

[twindowlicker]

That is the voice of Jim Hawthorne doing the narration in this. He was an on-air personality at KTTV in the 50's, as well as other LA TV and radio stations.

[Trance88]

So basicaly it's all overlaping videos.

[CassetteMaster]

That is interesting.

[NTVnetwork]

I bet the heart wipe revolutionized the industry back then!

[tinkerman]

And it it's Not Expensive!

(If you don't count the capital investment . . )

[bobbyboblaw]

This is an interesting and informative video ("and it's not expensive!"). Worth seeing in part for the clip from the first incarnation of "Divorce Court."

[BadGurl404]

And they did this in 1961 B.C. (Before Computers).

[eyeh8cbs]

Well, this obviously came from a film source.  Too bad KTTV's a Fox station now- damn Fox ruined a lot of great independent stations.

[ProductionX]

If you read the story on the web link given here, it stated that they had to make this a kinescope in order to show it to potential clients since video equipment was still hard to come by outside TV studios in those days (whilest film projection was already a common standard for other means).

[ProductionX]

And yes, Fox did ruin everything they touched (with the exception of those later stations they took over that were previous network affiliates with one of the Big Three, but that's another story).

[loser351]

You got that right they sucked the life out of KCOP.

[TruSlack]

Great stuff. I've got a few reels of 2" Quad sitting around here somewhere, dating back to 1965. 60 minute reel must weigh 15 lbs or so....

[ProductionX]

I just love seeing the old luminance keying effects used here. It's nice seeing the efforts of early video pioneers in getting people interesting in the world that video recording would make possible over film.

[brovio]

Do you know what are on those reels or what city they are from? Thanks!

[ProductionX]

Well this was informative!