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...many failings, most of which came from the clumsiness of the mechanical moving parts. They were replaced by the modern television camera tube, which has no moving parts except a beam of quickly obedient electrons. But the flying spot did not die entirely. Last week Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories described a new system of televising indoor scenes in color by means of a thoroughly modernized flying spot of light...
Educated Floodlight. Du Mont's "Vitascan" system uses what looks like a TV camera with a conventional lens, but instead of taking light in, the "camera" shoots light out, acting like a highly educated floodlight. The source of light behind the lens is a luminescent surface that glows brightly when struck by a hair-thin beam of electrons. The electron beam scans back and forth, covering the whole surface in a small fraction of a second. The spot of light that it creates is projected on the scene by the lens, scanning it like the beam of a small...
Sight in Darkness. Du Mont's solution is to utilize the brief periods, 60 of them per second, when the flying spot has finished scanning the scene and is waiting for an instant before scanning it again. The phototubes are "blind" during this period, so the Du Mont engineers provide stroboscopic lights that flash brightly 60 times per second. To the slow-acting human eye they seem steadily luminous, but as far as the TV apparatus is concerned, they are not shining at all. All it can see is a dark room scanned by a flying spot...
...Mont claims that this system, which sounds complicated, is much cheaper and easier to handle than the three-tube cameras normally used for broadcasting color TV. Its disadvantage is that it will not work outdoors. It requires an enclosed space where there is no natural light to compete with the flying spot...
...Mining Co., the world's No. 2 copper producer (behind Kennecott), succeeding Cornelius F. Kelley (TIME, May 30). Glover got a law degree at the University of Oregon in 1915, served as a sergeant in World War I. In 1919 he hung out his shingle in Great Falls, Mont., representing among others Montana Power, Great Northern Railway, Anaconda. He joined Anaconda's legal department full time in 1943, and within eight years was general counsel and a vice president. Recently, Glover skillfully helped resolve thorny difficulties over taxes and exchange rates with Chile, where Anaconda mines Chuquicamata...