WGBH Archives Historical Collection; Christmas Show 1964

If your. Inputs outputs electrical circuitry transistors semiconductors. Integrated circuits. And amazing electronic complex of television. And I story today on Science Report. Hello I'm John glitch and science reporter behind me in this unassuming concrete building filled with the tools of the remarkable industry called television. One of the most important tools of this industry is videotape. And earlier today I had a chance to talk with an expert whose job it is to work with this remarkable media. And I asked exactly

what is videotape. Well no videotape is. Thrown like this. It looks like it looks like chocolate and it's awfully slippery. It is you know exactly what is the. Thing that you're doing now. What. What are you doing here. Well I don't know I'm editing the papers for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. You're putting the tapes together Genzyme How is that duck out there now. Now we have an example here here's a lovely passage and it has some loops in it and then it has some cellos and we've got with taps the flute section to the cello section and they're supposed to be an oboe section here but I don't find it so I'll just attach these. So you have told you how slippery you hold it will you Mr. Blitzer. Is there anything unusual about that tape or could you use just a nice sticky tape and then you want to.

Cut the ends off a little bit. Prime makes this even this possible. You know I mean you can. As long as it'll stick together that's the main thing I used to know. Those are true. There they are and whenever we find the overalls we can attach that on to this other is. Because it's so slippery of attempts to use all of these two parts of my table here. You don't know where the Obamas are just now but you are right over there somewhere around they'll turn up. Well it doesn't make any difference if we leave them out I've seen a I've seen a shot where it seems as though one picture is seen as another picture is disappearing where you almost see one over the other one is that that's a soup or is it a superimposition I guess what. How do you do that. Well the way I do that I think is we have so we got another one of these chocolate brown tapes and this one says I still say you want to see the conductor and the orchestra. Now you have that one. It says that the conductors on it are presumably right. Then you have this orchestra I

presume. Well anyway you just put them on top of each other throwing. And I'm sure you know there are rules we've got to smooth it out. A little bit. You will do you know of that suit us. That's. Just what I use when I find it works very well unless you want to really make it stick. Well all right let's take that and then we just roll it back and forth. SEE So there you are you've got all press through there and you have your point was that underneath the conductor conductor you know so there you are. I. Have. I'm tobe one of the most significant voices that keeps this operation on the air is a device. Called Max. Who is Max or what is Max. Max who. You know the system of buttons and look at

all these different colors. We've got our engine red black and green and then over here we've got some other ones in there. They're pretty it's gay in here that's what I like. Well I suppose you want to put a program together by the use of these buttons How would you go about it is there anything new for I always put it together by colors yellow red button. But that isn't a nice combination. Yellow and red if you want to do is yellow and red yellow and then the green and then the red because you want to have some kind of a contrast to point up the two colors. So you don't want to have no national colors no take to put a show together. Oh I can put a good show of good programming together in less than half an hour. We're so you know remarkably well now. And I'm told that some stations begin the program day with ceremonies of Star Spangled Banner one thing one thing and another. How is it done here. How do you begin your programming.

Oh well I always begin it with a nice. Toast. And not just start things off. Well because you want to want to have everybody in a good mood. You know. Wow. Here we go almost Let's have a cold wallow when we drink to drink to muster confront fine fine. Bald white guy. This is my next live program. Interrupted emotional difficulties. Ready stand by Jade Frank's already in progress. And our second recipe to help you appease that mid evening hunger of your guest is an old Norman delicacy panoply not a jelly. Now one of its virtues is that all the materials are available at your local grocery and we have them all assembled here. I always

think it best to do this in the kitchen. It's easier on your rug when I first slice the bread lengthwise. Now you want a sharp knife for this. They have very sharp knives in the Congo if you happen to be there or your scissors minder may shop on one of your kitchen on a hell. Of a good long. Low bred here. Now we have the two harvest we set want to side and next the smooth round texture of ground up Breton. Too bad. Now we have an old fashioned French peanut butter spreader here that I'm sure you can get at your local hardware stores. Well. The French always say hands are best in in cooking. I like to get it on good and thick.

So that there's one ha. We set that aside then no. Then the sweet gelatinous and colorful jelly. I have a wine jelly here and. I like to put that on. Good and thick cover at all just to keep any air out. And now we have both. And now the of course the final French touch just a little removed just a cup to give it the cachet of French Cooking just a cop. Or well if you don't have removed the coarse cognac not too much. Just just a little. And they're now

ready to serve in half an hour. And delicious with champagne unless your guests insist on Cope's. But one of the real French delicacies and oh I know a jolly long apathy. Radion three Where are you going man. PDR dream. And we pour our first liquid in and this look this is the cabin Tetra chloride. And we must be sure to try to get all the drops and there is another place where we might make a mistake. Now let's start putting our little weights on and see what we have. Here's a hundred gram weight. Now here's another one that's 200 grams. Now

look at what's happened. The carbon Tetra chloride is soaked through the cup. And we can't do that one. So with you're going to use a cup you have to be sure that you're using the right kind of material and the liquid doesn't do anything to what. You are showing is ready VTR for as soon as Jack Cain gets his hand off my combat tears. A 21 inch Classroom program. To print something out. The. Actual track and I do not see the 91 percent even right aside I. Was. Going to.

Come up here oh dusty feet here is fairy bread to eat here in my retiring room. Children you may find a pile sniffing gold in the shade of knotty pine. And when you have stories and fairy freely after rather lusty welcome or you post-adolescent kiddies This is Uncle Jordy for another weekly reading session. Now you remember last week we talked about that sweet young little girl without her entre dirty old wealth. Well next week we have another story like that about a sweet little blonde with three bears. But today we have a different kind of story about a young blonde folks

squirm. The book plays off. Thank you. Before either of us under arrest however he put out the candle and the bitterness of the weather made it a kind of necessity for me to go into the bad slipping then my clothes on. I crept under the bed clothes where I found the young stripling already nestled in the touch of those warm flesh rather pleased me than alarmed me. I was indeed too much disturbed with the novelty of my condition to be able to sleep. But not the least thought of. How powerful are the instincts of nature. How little is there was going to set them in action. The young man sliding his arm under my body drew me gently towards him as if to keep himself and me were alone and the heat I

felt from joining on breast kindled another that I had had the to another fellow and was even then a stranger to the name. Studio failure I didn't see flooding from transferred to reserve channel. But anyway there was a by Barry is a great sculpture of an old dominoes I'll teach you something about that later. This is Max studio a standby.

Remember everything will be alright. We're in the new building. This is Maggie. Deposit

another. Almost useful method. Of Mathematical Analysis graphical analysis will be to find a method that will result in a straight line graph. Let's take an example of a man walking down the street. Mm. This is Max. I'm tired and maybe shows I switch you now to Southeast Asian documentary already in progress. A woman in Denver sent Channel 2 this no.

Tell me hold it I forgot to know. Which you now to my favorite program. A 21 inch Classroom program. From. Nothing.

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