KYTV Then
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Getting Images
- Behind the Scenes
In the early days of news gathering at KYTV, all 16 mm film was processed as a negative only. Newsman Jack Murray is shown using the table top processing unit. When the film was projected, engineers in the control room would reverse the polarity on the projector and the image viewers saw came across positive. Developing only to a negative was faster and much cheaper than reversal processing equipment.
It was a big day when the news department got its reversal film processor, a device which looked like it might have been built by Rube Goldberg. Ken Cansler is working with the processor here.
In the early days, all members of the news department were reporters, photographers, film processors, editors, and on-the-air reporters. Here I am editing film.
The next step up in technology after the advent of reversal film development was acquisition of a sound camera which expanded the type of coverage possible. It also expanded the duties of the newsman who was his own crew. Today a film (or tape) crew doing the same job may include at least three people.
Maintained by - Updated May 1, 2001
