Word: minicams
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...gizmo-fancying world of local TV news, the helicopter rivals the minicam as the novelty of the moment. Choppers can cost $300,000 or more, but they give some 250 TV station news crews speed and mobility, and serve as remote transmitters for pictures ranging from traffic to catastrophes. But the ratings race can tempt copter reporters to chase sensation, making aerial derring-do part of the story, and to take needless risks...
Later the networks brought the minicam to the locker room. Athletes with enviable physiques were suddenly "up close and personal." They proved neither as intimidating nor as unmatchable as they seemed from a distance. If petulant Jimmy Connors could do it, playing tennis had possibilities for Everyman. In 1972 television struck another blow for fitness when Frank Shorter, the first American to win the Olympic marathon in recent times, lunged across the finish line in Munich's Olympic Stadium and into 13,540,000 American households. The images wavering on the color tube informed viewers that there were better...
...truth splits open like a suitcase, one's moves must be fast and sure. Public figures rarely have that aplomb: when someone abruptly turns on the light and catches them, they bunk in astonishment and guilt or reach their palms out desperately to cover the lens of the minicam...
...then there was the old man of the boards, Ronald Reagan, a show business artifact whose time has come round again through video tape and the minicam. Reagan kept his eyes on the lens and himself under control, and he appeared on the screen as just about the only public figure of the moment who could both understand and tame the crazy world...
...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...