Word: minicam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film opens with the "tone and bars" test pattern of a T.V. minicam about to feed a live report to the evening news. Cut to Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda), a local reporter hired for her red hair, good looks, and ability to deliver a snappy, well-timed piece of fluff to end the evening newscast. After doing her usual competent but contentless job, she's told to spend the next day filming a special on energy at a nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles...
...feet, filming the approaching riflemen. "He was incredibly tenacious," Javers reported. "Then I saw him go down. And I saw one of the attackers stick a shotgun right into his face?inches away, if that. Bob's brain was blown out of his head. It splattered on the NBC minicam. I'll never forget that sight as long as I live. I ran, and then I dived head first into the bush and scrambled as far into the swamp as I could...
Technical support has been provided by the truckload: actually, seven 40-ft. trailers. To broadcast from 24 different sites, ABC will be using 25 color cameras, including five mobile units and four Electronic Sports Gatherers-minicam-eras with backpack power sources. The ESGs, never used for live broadcasting at an Olympics before, should give ABC the flexibility it believes is essential...
...portable cameras is not new. Shoulder-held black and white models ("creepy-peepies") made their debut on the floor of the 1964 nominating conventions, and color models were used four years later. Yet their blurred pictures badly needed improvement. CBS led the way with the camera it calls the minicam, and new Japanese models (one is called the "Handy-Looky") now weigh as little as 12 lbs. and produce images of good quality...