Introduction
The table below lists the models of telecine equipment that Marconi produced:
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Model number |
Description |
Comments |
Date (approx.) |
Details |
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BD620 |
Flying-Spot Caption Scanner |
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< 1958 |
here |
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BD679 |
16mm Film Recording Channel |
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< 1958 |
here |
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BD680 |
Telecine equipment, IO, valve, MkII camera |
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1951 - 1955 |
here |
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BD844 |
Vidicon Telecine Channel |
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1958 |
here |
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BD872 |
Optical Multiplexor |
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1958 |
here |
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BD884 |
Telecine equipment, vidicon, valve |
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1960 - 1961 |
here |
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BD888 |
Vidicon Telecine Channel |
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1959 |
here |
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Simplex Telecine, 35 and 16mm for colour and monochrome |
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c. 1964 |
here |
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BD894A |
Slide Projector |
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< 1963 |
here |
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BD894C |
Dual Slide Projector, with optical mixing |
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< 1963 |
here |
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BD897 |
Caption and Clock Scanner |
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1962 |
here |
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Telecine ancillary units |
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1959 |
here |
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BD922A |
Telecine equipment, vidicon, with 16mm Bauer projector, Philips 35mm projector, BD896 camera. The camera had a CCU and PSU in MIV format and mounted vertically taking the output from the Optical Multiplexor. |
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1960 - 1964 |
here |
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B3451 |
Vidicon Telecine Channel |
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< 1965 |
here |
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B3400 |
16mm Telecine Channel |
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1966 |
here |
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B3401 |
Simpex Telecine, 35mm and 16mm |
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< 1965 |
here |
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B3402 |
Telecine equipment, follow-on from the BD922A but with a modified MkVII camera head |
2 installed at Granada TV |
c. 1968 (PTV)
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here
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4 installed at ITN |
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3 installed at Yorkshire TV |
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B3404 |
Telecine equipment, based on MkVIII camera |
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1976 - 1981 |
here |
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B3410 |
Line Array Telecine equipment |
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~1982 |
here |
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B3440 |
Slide Projector |
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< 1965 |
here |
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B3442 |
Slide Projector |
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< 1968 |
here |
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B3450 |
Caption and Clock Scanner |
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< 1965 |
here |
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B3510 |
16mm Film Recording Channel |
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< 1965 |
here |
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B3511 |
16mm Film Recording Channel |
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< 1968 |
here |
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Design philosophies of the B3400 series
Please refer here to view the design philosophies of the B3400 series of telecine equipment.
Further reading
Advances in helical video tape recorders for TV broadcasting by A.N. Heightman 1977 click here
Gamma in Telecine by D.A Pay and A. de M. Fremont 1972 click here
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