Photograph caption dated June 21, 1984 reads, "Featuring the consequences of covering an Olympics marathon in the movie capital without a tracking shot, ABC ordered up a super-duper mobile unit to fill the bill. It carries two gyro-mounted cameras, a hand-held model, seven monitors, a crew of 10 and driver. Custom-built by a Colorado firm, the vehicle is emission-free when driven by its two 42-horsepower electric motors, but has a Chrysler piston gasoline engine to carry it up and down the Los Angeles hills. As the vehicle silently tracks the marathoners on their 26-mile course, a helicopter will hover above to relay the signals to a studio. The cost was not given, but the batteries alone weigh 2,500 pounds."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
American Broadcasting Company Olympic Games--(23rd :--1984 :--Los Angeles, Calif.) Olympics Vehicles--California--Los Angeles Motorcycles--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Television cameras Parking lots--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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