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Photograph caption dated May 9, 1960 reads, "Actress Norma Yost is taking a picture of her own image in the television monitor while the TV camera aimed at her reproduces her action on magnetic picture tape. Nick-named the "Big Eye," the new TK-12 camera is capable of reproducing a tape so clearly defined that it can be copied into the "fourth generation," meaning that three acceptable copies can be made from the original. The "Big Eye" was demonstrated by RCA as part of its integrated television tape production systems exhibit at the convention of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers at the Ambassador Hotel."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Yost, Norma Lawless,--1937- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers RCA-Victor Company Ambassador Hotel Television cameras--Image quality Television cameras Actresses--United States Valley Times Collection photographs
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