RCA color graphics scanner?

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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Anyone know if RCA made graphic arts color scanners? This auction item implies that they did in 1968, but I had not heard mention of them.

Not that I know of. The TV stations I worked for in that period had RCA filmchains consisting of a 3 tube color camera, a B&W vidicon preview camera, two TP66 16mm projectors, a TP35 dual drum slide projector and a mirror multiplexer to reflect the proper projector into the color camera. The only graphic art camera I know of is the ancient Gray Tel-OP or Bal-Optigon, an Iconoscope camera from the early 1950s that could air 4X6 inch art cards or a credit roll which consisted of a roll of paper with the show credits that was attached to a drum that rotated past the Iconoscope's field of view.

Cliff