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  1. SONY EV-310 1" Videocorder Tools

    Sony published product literature for the EV-310, a portable one-inch EV Series videocorder for professional NTSC color or monochrome composite recording; it records any 60-field-per-second composite signal and offers two-channel audio, editing, slow-motion and stop-action playback with continuously variable speed down to less than one-fifth and audio dubbing on channel 2. Playing time is 60 minutes on a 2,460 ft. reel; transport speed 7.8 ips; Sony guarantees 100% tape interchangeability and lists a 1,500-hour video head warranty. Specifications include 117V ±5V power, dimensions 18" x 10" x 19" and weight 77 lbs; optional accessories include CLP-1B, EVR-310 and RMM-2.

  2. SONY EV-320 1" Videocorder Tools

    Sony produced a series of one-inch VTRs between 1963 and 1971, including models EV-200 through EV-330TLV and UV-340; the 310/320 series offered remote control and Color Pack options. Product literature lists EV 320 Price List 8/1/69 $4,900 and describes the EV-320 as a capstan-servo, insert-edit capable 1" reel-to-reel color VTR with 60-minute playing time on a 2,460-foot reel and a one-year video-head warranty. The EV-320F is presented as a video editor with flying erase heads, the EV-330TLV as a time-lapse VTR up to 60 hours, and the UV-340 as a self-contained full color videocorder; videotape in 1972 ranged from $40 to $70.

  3. Sony Videocorder Model EV-320F Tools

    Product literature for the Sony Videocorder Model EV-320F describes a color and monochrome 1-inch videotape recorder with capstan-servo electronic editing, a newly developed rotary erase head and an ADD insert-editing feature; playback sync can lock to an input vertical sync or automatically to 60 Hz mains so no external sync generator is required. Optional Sony Color Pack CLP-1B provides NTSC color capability; the unit offers two audio channels (one independent), RF output level metering, slow/still playback, electronic/manual tracking and rack-mounting. It records 60 minutes on a 2,460 ft. reel, guarantees tape interchangeability with EV Series machines and carries a one-year video head warranty.

  4. Sony VO-2800 3/4" cassette player/recorder Tools

    Sony introduced 3/4" video cassette recorders between 1971 and 1972, with product-literature citations; models cited include VO-1600 (1972), VO-1200 (1973), VO-1800 (1974) and VO-2800 (1975, 1977). The VO-2800 is described as a compact video production and editing unit for U-Matic systems offering NTSC color and monochrome recording, two audio tracks, capstan servo mechanism and two-head helical scan. Technical specifications listed include 3.75 ips tape speed, >45 dB signal-to-noise, two audio inputs/outputs and physical dimensions and weight; product images are included.

  5. Special Effects Generator - excerpt from the Experimental Television Center Studio System Manual Tools

    Excerpt from the Experimental Television Center Studio System Manual describing the Panasonic Special Effects Generator (SEG), a multi-input processor that combines two inputs via mixing, wiping, internal and external keying. The manual documents routing and controls: three main inputs plus an external key at the matrix split to buses A, B and preview; transitions Mix, Wipe, Int and Ext; bar, SUP and Cut functions; inputs 5, 6 and 4 assigned to color bars, black and genlock; outputs to the matrix and patch panel and uses including sending color bars to monitors/VTR, using a color monitor as preview, bypassing the Jones output amp.

  6. Stephen Beck's Direct Video Synthesizer in Pioneers of Electronic Art Tools

    https://monoskop.org/images/1/11/Dunn_David_ed_Pioneers_of_Electronic_Art.pdf "I went to school at the University of Illinois and was very fortunate to find the experimental music studio in Champagne/Urbana. They were looking for somebody to wire things together and I got the job. The University of …

  7. The Development of a Video Art Facility by Electronic Body Arts, Inc Tools

    Phil Edelstein and Tom DeWitt conceived the Pantograph in 1975; they developed a television-camera-to-minicomputer score reader and held residencies at the WNET TV Laboratory with EBA dancers in Studio 46. NYSCA/WMHT funding in 1975–77 provided equipment support that led EBA to begin building the Pantomation system in November 1976; the Pantograph was publicly demonstrated on September 14, 1977 at the University at Albany Performing Arts Center. After WMHT withdrew programs in July 1977 RPI students provided WQPI space; in April 1978 DeWitt received $12,000 from the Guggenheim and $6,000 from the NEA and EBA completed a commissioned tape for exhibition on April 28.

  8. The Eidophor Television System Tools

    Invented in 1939 and developed from the early 1940s in Zurich by Dr. Fritz Fisher, the Eidophor projector used a thin oil film on a rotating spherical mirror in vacuum scanned by a 15 kV electron gun to produce surface corrugations that diffracted arc or xenon lamp light through a Schlieren-like bar-and-slit optical system. Used extensively from the early 1950s into the 1980s, it incorporated CBS field-sequential and later dot-sequential color wheels and supported large-screen projection; documentation includes SMPTE articles (1950, 1953) and Eidophor training materials supplied by Bernhard Merk, Switzerland.

  9. The Videola Tools

    Don Hallock created the Videola at the National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco; a color monitor in a mirrored pyramid produced an illusory spherical image 4x8 feet. It displayed images from camera, videotape recorder or video synthesizer; at NCET the Beck Direct Video Synthesizer was used as the input signal. The Videola was exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art in September 1973 with videotape works by Hallock and a live performance by Stephen Beck; press coverage appeared in California Living, the San Francisco Chronicle and Artweek.

  10. Ture Sjolander and Bror Wilkstrom Raster Scan Device Tools

    Swedish artists Ture Sjolander and Bror Wikstrom produced early electronic paintings for National Swedish Television, notably TIME (1965–1966; commissioned 1966, televised 1966–69) and MONUMENT (1967; televised in France, Italy, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland in 1968). Their work used a temporarily built video synthesizer and waveform-generator modulation of video-scan-line rasters; Nam June Paik visited Elektronmusic Studion in Stockholm in July/August 1966. A March 12, 1974 letter from Rutt Electrophysics (signed Sherman Price) requests documentation on raster-distortion circuitry and modulation of the deflection voltage in the flying-spot telecine; a block diagram and image are included.

  11. Video Modular System Tools

    VMS Video Modular System Video Modular Systems, Berkeley, CA The VMS was designed by Bill Etra of Etra Technology Research Associates, Dan Sandin (University of Chicago, Circle Campus) and Lee Felsenstein, with assistance from Bill Hearn (Electronic Associates of Berkeley). The device could colorize…

  12. Video Processing Facility at National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV, San Francisco (c 1972) Tools

    At the National Center for Experiments in Television (KQED-TV, San Francisco; c. 1972) Lawrence W. Templeton designed and built a flexible video Mixer to replace conventional two-bus switchers, using patch cords and experimental plug-in modules. The Mixer incorporated keyers, colorizers, a color modulator, an edge generator, feedback delay lines, a multi-keyer and six distribution amplifiers, and accepted inputs from two Sony DXC-2000A B/W cameras, a Sony DXC-5000 color camera and a Beck Direct Video Synthesizer. Circuit engineer Richard Stephens built a handheld remote control switcher; control was also demonstrated via Buchla Electric Music Box control voltages.