earliest kinescope
earliest kinescope
Other than the clip of louis vs conn 2 that appeared recently what is the earliest kinescope that survives?i know walcott vd charles 1 is early ...june 1949....any thoughts?
Re: earliest kinescope
Im not sure if a kinescope survives but
Joe Louis vrs Jersey Joe Walcott II
June 25 1948 Yankee Stadium, was also televised on NBC-TV and radio.
It was shown only in seven cities including
NYC,Boston,Schenectady,Philadelphia,Washington DC,Baltimore and Richmond.
Joe Louis vrs Jersey Joe Walcott II
June 25 1948 Yankee Stadium, was also televised on NBC-TV and radio.
It was shown only in seven cities including
NYC,Boston,Schenectady,Philadelphia,Washington DC,Baltimore and Richmond.
Re: earliest kinescope
that link was to the video-tape of the official RKO fight film not the kinescope.evrenb wrote:Other than the clip of louis vs conn 2 that appeared recently what is the earliest kinescope that survives?i know walcott vd charles 1 is early ...june 1949....any thoughts?
I haven't seen part of the kinescope mentioned since that 1949 NBC-TV documentary on kinescopes was taken off youtube a couple of years ago.
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Re: earliest kinescope
I asked this same question in another thread and didn't get an answer. From what I know, the clip from Walcott-Charles I is the earliest surviving film of boxing on TV.evrenb wrote:Other than the clip of louis vs conn 2 that appeared recently what is the earliest kinescope that survives?i know walcott vd charles 1 is early ...june 1949....any thoughts?
There are a handful of complete films of TV fights from the following year (1950), including Louis-Charles, Robinson-Dykes, Graziano-Burton, Fusari-Pellone, and Flood-Diamond.
Re: earliest kinescope
A kinescope was definateley made of Louis vrs Charles II June 25 1948.
According to the book FIGHT PICTURES by Dan Streible.
When the fight was being televised live on NBC-TV,
The Paramount theater on Times Square NYC,
The signal was transferred to 35 film and as the film was being developed the film was being projected onto a 24 foot theater screen where a audience of people of the television industry watched.
There was a 66 second delay between the live TV signal and watching it on the screen.
I think this is also how the kinescope of Louis vrs Conn II was made.
Both of these were originally viewed by TV production people.
The first"Commercial" closed-circuit boxing match
was Joe Louis vrs Lee Savold, in 1951 which was shown live at theaters in Nine differenant
cities.The TV signal by then was shown live on a theatre screen.
Maybe the NBC-TV archives still has these 35 mm kinescopes?
According to the book FIGHT PICTURES by Dan Streible.
When the fight was being televised live on NBC-TV,
The Paramount theater on Times Square NYC,
The signal was transferred to 35 film and as the film was being developed the film was being projected onto a 24 foot theater screen where a audience of people of the television industry watched.
There was a 66 second delay between the live TV signal and watching it on the screen.
I think this is also how the kinescope of Louis vrs Conn II was made.
Both of these were originally viewed by TV production people.
The first"Commercial" closed-circuit boxing match
was Joe Louis vrs Lee Savold, in 1951 which was shown live at theaters in Nine differenant
cities.The TV signal by then was shown live on a theatre screen.
Maybe the NBC-TV archives still has these 35 mm kinescopes?