Robert H Springer - Editing Tour - Late 1950's

Robert H Springer was a television pioneer who worked for ABC as the head of the Videotape Department. He hosts this film that was shot in the late 1950s as a demonstration/tour for students at UCLA. It is a great piece of television history and shows the origins of the use of video tape in broadcasting.
This is a cutdown of the full piece - this cutdown focuses on editing procedures.

[marktubeie]

THE BEST footage on YouTube of an era long gone - memories! Those jigs were a beautiful piece of kit...!

[rty]

I can still remember doing this back in the way 60s. That sicing tape was extremely thin as to not cause the thickness of the tape to cause much of an error in tip projection from the video head as the splice passed the female vacuum guide The splice was made on the backside of the tape.

[jsat]

Great Video! Great for anyone interested in the history of television. Very nice to see that old Ampex machine in action! I
Thank you very much for posting!

[ASgfjyhgyi]

Wow! In USA they still use so primitive device??!! In North Kore we use much better device for editing.

:)