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The New Sony 3-D TV
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WTF Are People Saying
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Mammograms were awfully crude back then , . . . and not very accurate . . .
Can anyone tell me what is REALLY going on here?
I’m sure it was for the sake of “special effects” back then, but I’m curious as to what they were trying to pull off?
Just to the SOB who has my last name and apparently all the free time in the world I am going to ruin his/her fun. I saw this over a year ago.
This picture shows an RCA color TV camera installation at at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. in the 1955-56 period. This system was used to televise operations for instructional purposes. The round object in the center is a high-intensity lighting fixture with an opening in the center. The mirror above the lamp allowed the TV camera to focus on the operation as it proceeded. This picture was probably taken just after the installation was completed. It might be safely assumed that the patients were not expected to lie on the floor.
http://www.uv201.com/Photo%20Pages/rca_promotional.htm
Wow! $350,000 worth of equipment to recreate the effect of a $2 mirror. Isn’t technology awesome?
Looks like some crusty old Twilight Zone depiction of a UFO abductee about to be probed…..but why is she so happy 0_o maybe shes into that……hmmm
Very old X-ray machine designed for using with people on gurneys, stretchers, wheelchairs etc.
It’s a very early RCA Color TV Camera, possibly a TK-41 — three separate cables for red, green and blue channels. The big round thing is a light bank — those old cameras needed incredible lighting to get the image through the color separator. We’d use two 5 kilowatt incandescent floods at 8 feet to light one guy in a chair.
I have no idea why that lash-up, though, unless they planned to televise someone who was in an Iron Lung.
Cool! An early still of a Wonka vision prototype! (I don’t think she’ll be smiling when they put her through the taffy puller though…)
Maybe a way to record an operation?? The big disk at the bottom is a light(?) and the actual production model would be mounted much higher over a table?
The UFO is an ordinary surgical lighthead from the early ‘sixties, and the box in the upper left corner is a TV camera, presumably b&w, that was meant to shoot the center of surgical action (i.e. the inside of your tummy) via the mirror and the opening in the center of the lighthead. The rest, i.e. the lady on the rug, obviously was some kind of a gag or prank. Needless to say there were no rugs in operating rooms in in those times.
they tell me it’s a small tumor and ther won’t be THAT much radiation