Silent Scrum
Early 1920s scrum of newsreel photographers interviewing Calvin Coolidge.
Posted on January 28, 2010 | Posted by amanda | Comment
ENG and Beyond
Filed Under: eng, television
The third in a series of fliers sent out by Cinema Products during the ENG vs newsfilm arguments of the late 1970s. This flier is a transcription of a talk given by Cinema Product’s Ed DiGiulio at the SMTPE Atlanta meeting in 1977.
Read “ENG and Beyond“
Posted on January 22, 2010 | Posted by amanda | Comment
ENG Backlash
Filed Under: eng, television
The second in a series of letters from Cinema Products that were mailed to TV managers during the late 1970s touting newsfilm over the then new ENG equipment.
Read “The ENG ‘emperor’ has no clothes”
Oh, and happy birthday Lenslinger!
Posted on January 20, 2010 | Posted by amanda | Comment
ENG Hysteria
Filed Under: eng, television
I will editorialize here and state this flier from a series sent out deriding ENG from Cinema Products is a case of déjà vu. Just replace ENG with “babycam” and newsfilm with “full-sized camera.”
Read “Whatever happened to the concept of TV news as an important public service?“
Posted on January 19, 2010 | Posted by amanda | Comment
FOX Movietone News Crew
FOX Movietone News crew somewhere on the globe in the mid 1930s.
Posted on January 17, 2010 | Posted by amanda | Comment