Word: video
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those sorry circumstances have befallen Asher J. Cole, 58, co-founder (in 1948) and chief executive of National Video Corp. The company is the Chicago TV tubemaker whose stock had been one of the darlings of the American Stock Exchange, rising from a low of $10.75 in 1964 to a peak of $120 a share in 1966. Now it is down to about $13. After reeling off a series of sad statistics to his stockholders, Cole announced that he would yield his presidency to a younger executive, move into the chairmanship-and give up his yearly salary "as a gesture...
Andy Warhol seems to be no less enthusiastic about the venture. "It's fun," he says, "and really pretty, really great." Naturally he now plans to turn out a full-length video-tape movie...
...Carver Junior High, all Negro, located in Meridian, Mississippi) has one of the finest physical facilities in the state. The school is less than five years old, has a complete system of air-conditioning, has readily available movie projectors, record players, amphitheaters, and is even in possession of a video-tape machine...
...pinwheel before the eyes; chatter and sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh-In would be impossible anywhere but on television. For one thing, each show is stitched together from about 350 snippets of video tape. Some of them-a flash of graffiti, for example, or a mugging face-last only an eighth of a second. Executive Producer George Schlatter calls this "energy film," a technique that gives a kind of booster burst of speed to the show. Explains Dick Martin: "Nobody's going...
...party atmosphere that pervades the set, new ideas are constantly added as the show moves from printed script to video tape. Jokes and ideas for skits are solicited from the nonwriting staff and anyone else who happens by. The twelve-year-old daughter of a production consultant, for example, specializes in graffiti (her latest contribution: LASSIE KILLS CHICKENS). On taping days, the writers are everywhere, feeding lines on the set, in the halls, dressing rooms, offices and wardrobe department. Periodically, the cast members try out impromptu bits on one another, often walk before the camera and say the first thing...