[opendtv] Re: The Rose Parade

  • From: "negrjp" <negrjp@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:02:05 -0300

Hi All,
About Rose Parade, and another Color TV stories:

Take a look at very nice Ed Retainer´s site:

http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/rose_parade.html

TTFN,
Jonas


> Hi Larry,
> 
> I was on the 1950 Rose Parade broadcast by KECA-TV. Have a lot of pictures
> but all common equipment--RCA TK-30A cameras with the usual lens complement,
> on with a Bach 3:1 zoom. TRT-1 microwave, RCA remote truck. I am in
> Spokane, WA now but will be home in a week. Let me know if you want any
> pictures of this stuff.
> 
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Larry Bloomfield
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:21 AM
> To: Open DTV list
> Subject: [opendtv] The Rose Parade
> 
> Hi all:
> 
> Need your help! My good friend, former boss and now writer for the 
> Tech-Notes, John Silva is putting together a story for us on the history 
> of televising the Rose Parade. John was one of the engineers who did the 
> very first televising of the Rose Parade when no one else was doing it. 
> We're looking at a report/story that will cover from the Iconoscope 
> cameras through color and HDTV - home-brew microwave gear and more. We 
> are looking for any pictures that might support this story. Most seem to 
> have been lost. If you have any or know where we can get any that we can 
> use, please help us. As I have told John, if we don't get this recorded, 
> it will be lost.
> 
> We would also be interested in any anecdotal information that you may 
> have on this subject matter.
> 
> FYI: John Silva, in addition to many other firsts in the television 
> industry, is the inventor the Telecopter, did the Lawrence Welk Show 
> before it was ever on network TV and was very involved in the first 
> televising of an atomic bomb blast from Nevada (see the most current 
> edition of Tech-Notes). All of these stories have been in the Tech-Notes 
> over the years.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> 
> Larry Bloomfield - KA6UTC
> Bloomfield Enterprises, LLC
> 1980 25th St. - Florence, OR 97439
> (541) 902-2424 (My Everything Phone #)
> WWW.Tech-Notes.TV
> See you on the Tech-Notes
> Taste of NAB 2006 Road Show
> 
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