Evening star., 1951-12-28
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IA Picture Is
IA Picture to
IA Camera
By Harry Macarthur

few years is that TV camermen
are inveterate experimenters. They
are willing to try anything with
an image orthicon just to see If
it works. Sometimes the results
are surprising.
Sometimes the results are sur
prising and something else, too.
Many cameramen, in addition to
having this inquiring turn of
mind, are whimsical fellows.
When they are, their whimsy
does not desert them on Christ
mas Eve, Charles Hill, WTOP-
TV director, will be glad to tell
you.
Mr. Hill was at the helm the
other night supervising the tele-
cast of services at st. Johns
Church here when a handsome
shot of a church window ap-
peared on one of his camera mon
itOrs. 1t was a church window
Of rare beauty: Just like picture
Hold it," said Mr.. Hill over
the mtercom to Cameraman Emil
J. Franks and for half minute
the CBS-TV networks viewers
were treated to this handsome
and fitting view of a church VIM
dow. Then the director switched
to another camera and went on
with the telecast and then he
heard Mr.. Franks laughing.
do you know what that shot
was." said Mr.. Franks in Mr..
Hills earphone. Watch"
Mr.. Hill watched the monitor
as the camera panned up from
the window to the beaming face
of Harry Remmers, a WTOP-TV
supervisor. The church window,
which looked like a picture. was
on Mr.. Remmers' necktie.
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Debut-While we're in the
camera department We might as
well take note of a new device
to be introduced by NBC-TV next
Tuesday during the televising of
the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena.
Added coverage Of both the foot
ball match and the preceding
parade will be provided by a new
"walkie-pushie" camera, to be put
into use for the first time. It
is mounted on a three-wheeled
platform and operates independ-
emily. without the usual wires and
cables, and can be moved from
one end or one side of the foot
ball field to the other. Tests
show that the mobile camera is
effective within a range of one
half mile from the control booth,
to which it transmits both audio
and video signal by radio. A
great future as a news reporter
is visualized for it.
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weekend Guests:
TOmorrow-Representative Clar-
ence Brown, on American Youth
Forum" (WNBW-5 PM.
Arturo Toscanini, conducting the
NBC Symphony in an aIl-Wagner
program (WNBW-6:30 pm.).
Senator Estes Kefauver, Red Skel-
ton, Jersey joe Walcott, Bobby
Thompson, the Harlem Globe
Trotters and Sport, dog star of
Top Banana" on THE Ken MUIR
ray Show" CWTOP-TV-8 p.m.).
;. The Northwestern High School
band Of Hyattsville CMd.) and four
other prize-winning high school
bands, on The Paul Whiteman
TV Teen Club" tWMAL-TV-8
p.m.). -. Madge Evans, on "Your
Show of Shows" (WNBW-9 pm.).
Rosemary Clooney. on Faye
Wonderful Town"
(WTOP-TV-9 p.mD. Peggy
Lee and Tony Bennett, on Songs
'or Sale" (WTOP-TV-10 p.m.}.
Sunday-Senator H. Alexander
Smith. on Meet the Press"
lWNBW-4 PM DR.. Haven
Emerson. discussing THE Future
1f Old Age" on Horizons"
(WMAL-TV-6 p.m) Bob
Hope, on the premiere of the new
Roy Rogers Show (WNBW-6|
p.mo >. Morton Downey. Mary
Mayo and Buddy Rich, on "Star
Of the Family" CWTOP-Tv-6:30
pmD :. Jerry Lester, on Sound
Off Time" (WNBW-7 pm.) i.
Frances Langford, on the Tooth
telecast of THE Paul Whiteman
Revue" (WMAL-TV-7 PM :.
Cornelia Otis Skinner on the pam
el, Maurice Rocco and Roberta
Quinlan entertaining. on This Is
Show Business" CWTOP-TV -
1870 p.m.) >. Helen Hayes, AL
fred Lunt. Oscar Hammerstein
and Sugar Ray Robinson, on
Toast of the Town" (WTOP-Tv
3 pm) Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis, on "The Comedy
Hour" (WNBW-8 p.m.) Nat
allie Schafer and Dorothy Peter
con, in '"The Sisters" on "Tele-
vision Playhouse" (WNBW - 8
p.m.) -. Isabel Bigley and Ray
mond Massey, on Celebrity
Time" (WTOP-TV-10 p.m.) {.
Bert Parks. facing the panel on
Leave It to the Girls" (WNBW
-10:3O pm.)