Science In Action show #537: "Global Television" (air date 4/2/1964)

From 1950-1966 the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco produced "Science in Action", which was the first live science television program in the country. Every week, half-hour episodes aired on various San Francisco Bay Area stations and were eventually syndicated and broadcast throughout the world. Dr. Tom Groody was the first host. In 1952, Aquarium superintendent Dr. Earl S. Herald took over that role and remained host until "Science in Action" went off the air in 1966 after 626 episodes.
This 1964 episode was shot in the Redwood City studio of Ampex Corporation, with guest Joseph Roizen, Ampex International Video Consultant. Mr. Roizen demonstrates with visuals the differences among international TV standards. He also touches on satellite TV distribution and standards conversion of incompatible television systems.
The final segment of this program demonstrates the recently introduced (1963) innovation allowing frame-accurate electronic editing called EDITEC, invented by Norman Bounsall, a video engineer for Ampex International.

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Film & Animation

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• Joesph
• Roizen
• Dr.
• Earl
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• Herald
• Ampex
• Editec
• Redwood
• City
• Norman
• Bounsall
• quadruplex
• videotape

[etihwr]

@Audiovideopark It just dawned on me what you meant. Yes, agreed, the program was shot with a single camera on location at the Ampex Redwood City headquarters, and cut-away inserts were laid in after the program master was recorded. I'm guessing the new Ampex electronic editor was used, and by today's standards, quite amateurishly.

[Audiovideopark]

@calif92627

The clips have been edited.

[calif92627]

Those video clips could not be comming from that Quad machine. They take longer than that to sync up and lock in the tip projection. That looks like venician blinds.