COMPLETE DAY BY DAY SCHEDULES for ROCHESTER, BUFFALO AUGUST 2 - 8, 1952 and SYRACUSE PHOTO DEVELOPING TV LIFE SPEED UNIT Western New York's Official TV - Radio and Entertainment Magazine DEVELOPED FOR TV Vol. 2 ~12 No. 21 The fastest motion picture film developing unit ever built is now being used by the Owned and Published by National Broadcasting Company. It was de­ ROBERT H. PEIFFER ASSOCIATES veloped for the coverage of the Republican 16 State St., Rochester 14, N. Y. and Democratic conventions. Phone BAker 0513 A radical departure in the field, the de­ Editor ------------- __ __ ___________ Bob Peiffer veloping unit can turn out 1,220 feet of Asst. Editor __ _ _ _____ H. V. Kipp negative film an hour, 300 feet in 15 min­ Photographer Len Campagno utes. It takes roughly two minutes to de­ velop one minute's worth of film. The or­ dinary film de~1oping machine takes six AUGUST 2- 8, 1952 times as long to develop an equivalent amount. Not only is the NBC-TV unit the speed­ TV Life is published weekly at Rochester, iest method of developing 16-millimeter New York. Subscription price $5.00 per films ever devvised, but the machine itself year, in advance. is the smallest commercial developer in use. It measures half the size of a home refrig­ erator, weighs 225 pounds, and is made of IF YOURS IS A TV HOME stainles steel. The fast developer is 26 inches long, 20 inches wide and stands 20 YOU NEED nyy LIFE11 inches high. NBC television began research on the fast film developer in October, 1951, with a view of having compact and rapid film equipment available for the disaster unit, a mobile TV studio on wheels. Two NBC­ TV film cameramen, David Klein and Phil­ lip Coolidge, worked out the basic idea. Klein used to develop his films by hand, and the experience he gained the hard way served as a basis for this new labor-saving device. The two cameramen worked on the fast­ developer project under the supervision of C . H . Cooledge, who is in charge of NBC­ neers and professors of the Massachusetts conventions. Cooledge worked with engi­ TV production operations at the political Institute of Technology to draw up plans for the P-'!achine. Then, as the convention approached, M.I.T. men built the machine in three weeks' time. The fast-developer's speed is a result of a secret formula for the developing solution and the hypo, both of which are used at normal temperature. Only 67 feet of film pass through the machine at any given moment. The fast-developer can be plugged into an ordinary wall socket and can oper­ Now is the time for a ate with or without running water. Com­ Glamorgraph by the pletely mobile, the device proved to be of invaluable service to NBC-TV's complete LEN CAMPAGNO STUDIO coverage of the political conventions. Film 133 Clinton Ave. S. • BAker 4431 made at the International Amphitheatre was processed and aired 15 minutes later. OVER THE TV FENCE .,, Betty Hutton just severed her contract with Paramount and is expected to do TV shortly ... A new survey by an advertising agency St:outs. Arthur Godfrey leads the Monday to Friday daytime shows followed by "Big shows that in families who have had their Sister," "Helen Trent," "Ma Perkins," "Our TV sets from one to five years, there is a Gal Sunday," "Wendy Warren," "Aunt 50% upswing in the use of radio . Bill Jenny," "Grand Slam," "The Guiding Light," Stern's illness is expected to keep him off the "Rosemary" and "Young Dr. Malone.'' air for several weeks ... TV's "My Friend . .. Latest Nielsen's of top TV shows list Irma,.. which operated without a producer them this way: "I Love Lucy," Pabst Blue last year, will have one this autumn and will Ribbon bouts, third, the Gillette "Cavalcade" continue to be aired 'Jive.' . Cartoonist Izaak Walton's have a new show on Don Herold is slated for a TV series ... ABC radio, "Field and Stream." . Three CBS has acquired the TV rights to the Bing different fi lmed TV formats are being of­ Crosby Enterprises films . The Hedy fered to Rhonda Fleming . Meredith Lamarr TV series will be tagged "Great Willson's Sunday guests the first two weeks Loves" and will be produced in Europe. in August to be Dick Powell and Robert . Theatre TV moguls are upping the fee Taylor ... The first of Jack Webb's new to watch boxing bouts. Last year, to see "D ragnet" TV films gets rolling August II the Murphy-La Motta fracas, the tariff was . Walter O'Keefe returns to Hollywood $1.25. This year, to watch the Robinson­ to resume his video program . "Father Maxim bout, cost was $3.25 .. There's talk Knows Best" and Roy Rogers' shows that Perry Como is due for an acting stint snagged sponsors for the '52-'53 season. on TV . Film stars Wanda Hendrix and . There's talk of musical series with Gig Young will team for TV on CBS, Broadway's Bill Tabbert of "South Pacific" August 8 . The "Fibber McGee and and Isabbel Bigley of "Guys and Dolls" . Molly" radio show has a new sponsor and Actor Claude Rains has a new contract to returns to the air on October 7 ... At the play Thomas Jefferson on a Ford Founda­ Chicago convention, MBS' fashion expert, tion series . Doris Day vacationing in newspaper columnist Bert Bacharach, was La Jolla, California . An experimental on hand to give Democrats tips on what to course in religion via television will be in­ wear for TV ... In Los Angeles there's a new quiz show for kids, "Bamboozle" in troduced at Yale's School of Divinity in the which a panel of three youngsters try to autumn, the first of its kind . .. T Vwill be avoid being bamboozled by five other used extensively to push the revival of the youngsters as contestants who dare them to "King Kong" film ... With TV slated to identify various objects and personalities acted out in charade fashion ... Jack Carter, begin in Canada in September, the sale of a who steps into the ]~ad in the Broadway record number of sets is reported . musical. "Top Banana," will do a straight Dolores Gray, star of Broadway's "Two dramatic part on the radio "Philip Morris on the Aisle" is slated for a CBS-TV show Playhouse" Sunday . Singer Marguerite Piazza, now in Europe, guest starring on when she returns from England ... Texas BBC-TV and Radio Rome ... Arthur Van crediting a boom in TV set sales to the Horn is planning a TV version of his radio Convention . 650 applications have al­ "Time Capsule " show on New York's WJZ ready been made for new TV stations . Gracie Allen celebrates her birthday Saturday, July 26 ... Latest Pulse survey A second television station has made its lists the top radio shows this way: Jack bow in Denver in just two weeks ... Roy Benny, Bergen-McCarthy Show, "Amos 'n' Rogers is now in the song publishing busi­ Andy," and the Doris Day Show tied for ness. His first publication to be a folio of third place, then the Charles-Walcott fight, "Lux Radio Theatre," "You Bet Your Life," Western songs ... Nina Foch due in Man­ Bob Hope, "Suspense," "Fibber McGee and hattan in August for a series of TV ap­ Molly," "Dragnet" and Godfrey's Talent pearances. 3 MONTGOMERY PRESENTS-11: 15-Ch 4 "Mr. Dobie Takes a Powder." After 10 years of faithful service with a department store, Mr. Dob ie takes an unauthorized day off with start­ TV tlDrflmfl ling results. Vaughn Taylor, Margaret Hayes and John Newland co-star. SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAYS MONDAY, AUGUST 4th ON TELEVISION THIS WEEK VIDEO THEATRE-8:00-Ch 4-6 "Two Makes four." The touching story of two FRIDAY, AUGUST 1st sm all orphan brothers who are anxious to be DOORWAY TO DANGER-9.00-CH 5-6 adopted. They plot a way to get the mother and The daughter of the minister of a Balkan country father they want. who was shot for the political reasons is hidden LIGHTS OUT-9:00-Ch 5 in New York by U.S. agents. She is captured by " Death Trap" starring Claire Luce and Leslie the emissaries of her country but is finally res­ Neilson in a story of a middle aged woman cued by trickery. with a very handsome actor husband. A murder PLAYHOUSE Of STARS-9:00-Ch 8 is committed in the aparlmeent building and her \\Crossroads" starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as a husband tells her he did it just to lest her love, cynical nobleman who tries to profit from the to see if she would report this to the police. french Revolution but is succeeded by a young This she does and the police conform that her idealist and his girl friend. husband has a perfect alibi. Her husband enters POLICE STORY-10:00-Ch 8 to hear her trying to convince the police that he Detective Sgt. Ray T. Hopkinson, Los Angeles did it. County Police force salves the murder of a good­ SUMMER THEATRE-10:00-Ch 4-6-8 natured aged man whose body is found in a "Jane Eyre." The immortal classic of the shy completely locked roam with no clues or finger governess who marries the master of Thornfield prints. Bob Keith stars in this California case. but who fonds tragedy when she discovers the SATURDAY, AUGUST 2nd mysterious woman in the garret.