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Old 12-14-2010, 11:14 PM
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Mock TV studio in film "Something In The Wind"

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I might of posted this a long time back but thought I'd post it again. In my transferring of beta tapes I came across an old B&W movie from 1947 entitled "Something In The Wind" and at the end of the film there was a mock television studio setup with completely abstract design TV cameras and control room monitors. Seeing this movie can now be viewed on YouTube, here is a link to the final segment of the film featuring the studio setup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruJ83Y6hglA

I like how the fake cameras were designed, they certainly have been made with style!!! In a sense they kind of look like medical vidicon cameras that would be mounted from the ceiling to film operations like in this image http://uv201.com/Photo%20Pages/Photo.../rca_lab_3.jpg . And the monitors look pretty cool too even though they are props with pictures superimposed or keyed onto them. Whoever designed the set had a pretty cool imagination!!!
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Old 12-20-2010, 12:49 AM
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Whoever designed it must have seen Metropolis! Cool indeed.

The set at 1:15 is real, looks like an RCA console with a 630 chassis but I can't pin down the model.
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Old 12-20-2010, 09:51 PM
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Large rectangular screens in 1947??? Television was so new then that no one knew what a camera would look like so they tried to make them into a Buck Rogers looking scene as that was exciting then. Too bad that prop doesn't exist today as I would like to examine that camera and the dentist's chair. It's easy to see why that style never became a norm in the TV industry! You had to hold onto any angle you made and dollying the camera? Who came up with that idea??
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Those cameras were stylish but very impractical - the camera operator had no view of what might be entering the picture from outside the frame.
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