Television Newsfilm Problems
Using super-8 film for television news reporting is a possibility for the future because of the obvious advantages of ease of handling and reduction in film cost. This will offset the cost of retooling and buying new projection equipment. Improvements made in amateur super-8 cameras have preceded in many features the 16mm professional camera. If the demand for a super-8 camera for television use were made, manufacturers would develop one. The same is true of super-8 film stock for television. A super-8 camera now on the market produces a magnetic-striped sound film using a double-system sound recording technique; however, a single-system sound camera could be developed for TV news coverage. A survey of 400 news film operations in the U.S. showed that a significant percentage desired to explore super-8 film for news coverage.
- Print ISSN
- 0361-4573
- Published
- 1971-03
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J07701