American Cinematographer - September 1990 - 18

Engineering Emmys Announced
The Board of Governors of the Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences will pres¬

Emmy awards and two plaques
organizations and various individu¬
als to recognize Outstanding Achieve¬
ment in Engineering Development at the
upcoming 42nd Annual Primetime Emmy
Awards, it was announced today by ATAS
ent two

to four

President Leo Chaloukian.

Emmy statuettes are presented
"for developments in engineering that are
either so extensive an improvement on
existing methods or so innovative in na¬
ture that they materially affect the trans¬
mission, recording or reception of televi¬
sion," while Emmy plaques are "for those
achievements that exhibit a high level of
engineering and are important to the
progress of the industry." The plaque is
not meant to be a consolation prize, but
a positive recognition of engineering
achievements that are on a different level
of technology and industry importance
than the Emmy statuette.

Recipients of this year's Emmy
Outstanding Achievement in
Engineering Development will be:

Award for

Comark Communications,
Inc. and Varian/Eimac (and its creative
team members Merrald Shrader, Don

Preist, and Nat Ostroff) for the Klystrode
UHF high power amplifier tube and trans¬
mitter, which not only reduced UHF trans¬
mitter power consumption by 50-75%, but
it permitted the elimination of vapor or

liquid cooling systems and the broadcast
of full-time multiplex service with
excellent efficiency and quality. The
Klystrode tube effectively reduces the
electrical consumption penalty that UHF
broadcasters pay with respect to their
use

VHF counterparts.
Zaxcom Video, Inc. (and
Glenn Sanders) for the TBC Control Sys¬

pability of TBC settings for the Edit Deci¬
sion List of video tape editors.
Additionally, plaques for Out¬
standing Achievement in Engineering
Development have been voted to:
Samuelson Alga Cinema
(and its creative team members Jean
Marie Lavalou, Alain Masseron, David
Samuelson and Herve Theys) for the
Louma Camera Crane, which was the first
"

and

Jerry Weiss.
♦ ♦♦

Hands Across the Sea?

International Post, an advanced
international post production facility, has

opened

the east coast as a division of

on

for

Audio Plus Video
International

(APVI). Interna¬
tional Post offers

complete multi¬
standard editing,
film-to-tape trans¬
fer and audio layback

mounting system which
enabled a remotely controlled camera to
be placed not only anywhere in a set, but
also to give a possible rise and fall range
ever camera

of 42 feet.
Alan Gordon

Enterprises

(and Grant Loucks and Geoff Williamson),
for the Image 300 35mm High Speed
Camera, which is capable of high speed

photography with frame by frame regis¬
tration and steadiness. It includes the

rooms.

"Through International Post, 10year-old Audio Plus Video Inter-national
is expanding its capabilities to offer serv¬
ices not previously available in the U.S.,
but for which there is a growing demand,"
said Andre Macaluso, general manager.
"As the European market grows with the
approach of economic unity in 1992, and
the number of joint ventures between
American and European production com¬
panies increases, the services of compa¬

professional features of reflex viewing,
replay, pin registration, quick
change magazines, interchangeable lens

nies like International Post will become

video

increasingly crucial to global operating
producers. Formerly, European producers

mount, orientable viewfinder and the use
of beryllium in the construction of the

would shoot in NTSC and the material
would then have to be edited and stan¬
dards converted for playback in their

spinning mirror shutter.
All of these engineering
awards will be presented during the
nontelevised portion of the 42nd Annual
Primetime Emmy Awards on Saturday,

country, or they had to ship raw PAL foot¬
age home for editing. Now they can rent
PAL equipment, edit their tape here,

September 15, at the Pasadena Civic

board

Auditorium.

tions, allows tape memories to store
settings to speed the process of video

American

September 1990

Cinematographer

Haney, Al Hart, Paul Johnson, Richard
Rawlings, ASC, Rod Ryan, Dan Sullivan

developments in engineering that
are either so extensive an improvement on
existing methods or so innovative in nature
that they materially affect the transmission,
recording or reception of television.
..

In addition to Committee Chair
James Smith, others who've served on
the Engineering Committee are Curt
Behlmer, Fred Berger, Dan Brewer, Dan
Carlin, Ron Estes, Dick Glickman, Frank

provides control of TBC's Proc
Amp and D2 VCR's from multiple loca¬

tem, which

16

tape editing, and provides a storage ca¬

transmit it

immediately via satellite, or
plane home with the finished
product."
a

International

Post's

new

15,000 square-foot headquarters in
Northvale, NJ, houses the most advanced
international post production facility ever
constructed in the United States. The
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