Photo Album-The swinging 60's
Memorabilia
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Many years ago, a very good friend of my father in law,
Don Kilby, a former World War II pilot, had moved into the electronics
industry: English Electric. I met him in early 2005 and he showed me an
article he had written describing how he used a very early Outside Broadcast
vehicle to provide live coverage of an event within the factory.
The cutaway picture on the right just looks so familiar to
me as a 'racks' engineer of late monochrome (image orthicon cameras) was so
used to. He not only arranged the technical aspects of the event, but made
it work and wrote an article about it! |
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| Below are some examples of old kit
as used by TRT television in Turkey. They have a superb museum full of
Broadcasting memorabilia from the last century. |
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In 1964, I moved into Television, and my first job
there was maintaining portable sound tape recorders such as this one! It's
an RD4 made by EMI recording onto 5" tape and driven by a large
number of type 'A' dry cells. Solid and dependable, this was one of the
standard location sound recordists machines. They went all over the world
with the Beeb. This one triggered a nostalgic twinge for me! Are there any readers out
there who have any memories of this machine? I could tell you a story
about one of these... |
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This is a machine for big boys (and girls, during
the war, women used to operate them at BBC Wood Norton) It's a Marconi
Stille steel tape recorder; in full working order! I spotted it in the
same excellent museum in Ankara. You actually need welding equipment to
edit! A far cry from minidisk recorders. |
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