A FLYING-SPOT SCANNER for TELEVISING 35 Mm FILM
'. 1956/57, No. 7 193 A FLYING-SPOT SCANNER FOR TELEVISING 35 mm FILM by F. H. J. van der POEL. 621;397.611.2: 778.53 Flying-spot scanners ere. particularly suited for the televising of flat, transparent pictures. In a previous' article in this Review a flying-spot scanner for televising stationary objects.was described. A similar scanner has now been developed for the transmission of 35 mm cinefilm, and the present ortiele discusses the problems involved in scanning a succession. of images. , Introduction The transmission of films has become a feature of For the televising of films, frequent use is made of every television programme., The equipment used flying-spot scanners. The interlacing, particularly, for this purpose is required to derive' an electrical gives rise to a number of problems. In the following signal, suitable for television, from standard film description of a flying-spot scanner for 35 mm film made for cinematographic projection. Such films, . developed, in Philips Research Laboratories, the are recorded at 24, frames per sec; the European solution of these problems will be discussed. Before television standards, however, require 25 pictures this we shall first touch brieflyon a system of per sec. Since there is no simple method of obtaining televising films with the aid of a normal television 25 television pictures per sec. from 24 film frames camera. per sec, the obvious expedient is to match the film speed to the speed required for television. Increasing Televising of fil~s using a television camera tube the film speed from 24 to 2,5 frames per sec has no objectionable effect either on the picture or on the A familiar method of televising films is that in sound.
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