ETF TV Convention

[Dave A]

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I have many photos which I have to download and will post. The best are the photos of the CT-100 that Pete Dexnis demonstrated. It was his chassis mated to a NOS 15GP22 that ETF had in their cabinet. Pete's chassis had his video adaptor installed to inject pure video past the RF section. The pictures are spectacular. This has been an ongoing effort to determine the proper colorimetry for the tube and has been a sucess. And it was a duplicate of what was done in stations of the day to monitor color transmissions.

He showed many Technicolor movie clips, Ed Reitan showed his restorations of the Fred Astaire Show specials along with two surviving color kinescopes of early color including what may be the second NBC color program after the Rose Bowl parade. Maurice Schecter contributed various restored NBC Peacocks to see along with his WWII military television seminar and the same equipment in working condition.

And with regrets, the various tapes and kines are not available for mass copying. Rightsholders, estates and copyright problems prevent this. We were fortunate to have been able to see them at ETF throught the efforts of the presenters for this occasion only. Another reason to attend.

The seminars were a trip through history with topics from Dumont to Disney. Denis Asseman came from Belgium to show his replica Octagon mechanical set. Look him up on Google to see more amazing efforts in mechanical television.

It was a group effort to get the ETF Dumont 30" Soverign to display color via John Folsom's "personal color" viewer up and running. And several strong backs were used to get the ETF TK-41 properly mounted on a pedestal and cam head for show to visitors. Now if you have a monitor assembly for the camera, let Steve know.

Be sure to be in Hilliard, OH next year.

Dave A