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Originally Posted by charliesheen
when i was about 6 or 7 i remember watching ktla,and on saturdays around 3pm,there was this movie show,i remember an old guy always introducing the movie and he had a 16 mm movie camera.this was the mid to late eighties.what was that show,my dad said the old guy was "popeye",and i never belived him,because to a 7 year old popeye is a cartoon and young,any help?
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Back in the early '60s there was a similar show on New York City TV that had a guy with a movie projector at one end of a table that he'd turn on as an introduction to a cartoon. I had thought that the cartoon film was in that projector, and the TV camera was turned while blanked and aimed at a projection screen with the cartoon projected on it. It wasn't until much later on I found out that there exists special camera devices that were built to view film directly. Some of these don't use regular camera tubes, but use a flying spot scanner to scan a frame of film, and that a photomultiplier tube (a tube that measures the amount of light it sees and can respond to changes quite fast) looks at the flying spot scanning the film and produces the video signal directly.