Hollywood Palace-1965 Color TV Commercial

[julianburke]

This might be interesting to some. Judy Garland hosts The Hollywood Palace sometime late in 1965 and in this scene is a commercial for a 1965 Admiral rectangular color TV. TK41 cameras were used here. This scene has a low grade color but when you view the 4 of 5 scene you will see a rich color typical of a well tweaked RCA TK41! This production looks like Technicolor! These five scenes look to be camcordered from a TV & video tape. Oddly enough, at the end of this scene and closing is the famed silouette of a RCA TK60 B&W camera (RCA's last B&W) with a ABC logo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g58lg...eature=related

[Dave A]

I believe these are not camcorded copies but original program copies which are showing drastic setup differences in the cameras.

#4 is a single camera duet that shows what looks like a mask in the LR corner. If you pull the slider over the clip, you can see the "mask" drift in and out as if a tube orbiter was engaged. I don't know if TK41's had this function, but it sure looks like what I saw in my TK-42 orbiter days.

Clip #3 is a three-camera number and you can see the "mask" jump around on the cuts and drift on all three and clearly a different set of cameras. Camera #3 does not appear until the middle of the number. There are large masks in all three cameras in the lower corners not seen in #4.

I was surprised to see such differences but if a round tube set had no corners to show...who cares. Let 'em drift...the star is in the middle.

The more I look at the clips, I suspect that some of the clips come from 3/4" copies given the sort rolling break-up in a few places and the head switch lines at the bottom. Typical of 3/4". 2" break-up was more drastic.

Dave A

[julianburke]

Since this program was ABC, they very well could have been '42's. They would have been very early as they were barely out the RCA door at this time. The color is soft and my original posting here was suspecting a 42. The Hollywood Palace had 41's among other cameras. I'll try to do a little more research on this. That 4 of 5 would show a proper working 42 as that was the best sharpness you would ever see on one. I was considering someone using a camcorder directly off of a TBV screen.

[old_tv_nut]

TK-41s had an optical orbiter installable as an added feature. If you look at the assembly and then the diagram of the optics, you can see that it replaced the vertical astigmatism corrector with an astigmatism-corrector-plus-orbiter.

(from Color Television Manual for Technical Training, Second Edition, 1959, RCA)