This kinescope about kinescope recording by NBC, contains the only surviving kinescope footage of the 1946 broadcast of the World Heavyweight Championship boxing match between Joe Louis (Champion) versus Billy Conn (Challenger). According to a 1946 article in "The Saturday Evening Post", the Louis-Conn championship boxing match broadcast on NBC garnered over 2 million viewers, most of whom watched the broadcast in jam-packed bars and taverns with television sets in them. It was the most-watched television broadcast of the Experimental Era of broadcast television in the US.
Whoa, this is a serious nugget! It feels like a missing link - an NBC TV telecast not just originating from Sunset & Vine but showing the building on the screen. Realize it's just a momentary still, but it gave me the tingles anyway. Great pull/post!
This kinescope about kinescope recording by NBC, contains the only surviving kinescope footage of the 1946 broadcast of the World Heavyweight Championship boxing match between Joe Louis (Champion) versus Billy Conn (Challenger).
According to a 1946 article in "The Saturday Evening Post", the Louis-Conn championship boxing match broadcast on NBC garnered over 2 million viewers, most of whom watched the broadcast in jam-packed bars and taverns with television sets in them. It was the most-watched television broadcast of the Experimental Era of broadcast television in the US.
How interesting
Hosted by NBC announcer Hal Gibney, whose voice was also heard on the original version of "Dragnet", both on NBC radio and TV, starring Jack Webb.
Whoa, this is a serious nugget! It feels like a missing link - an NBC TV telecast not just originating from Sunset & Vine but showing the building on the screen. Realize it's just a momentary still, but it gave me the tingles anyway. Great pull/post!
In other words, if you want a modern, digital-only movie made for actual film, use this process.
Ironically, this was shot on kinescope.
No. This is direct to film.
Part 2...?
That's all I gotz