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Originally Posted by PaulM
Hello David,
The last (and only) MkI that I ever saw was at the then Plymouth Polytechnic's Hoe Television Centre in Plymouth in the late 1970s. It had been converted to colour and ran to 7 19" racks. It worked very well but they never turned it off!
My Rank Cintel Mk II also began life as a black and white unit with the BBC before they had it 'colourised' in 1969. It has 16 and 35 mm transports plus a sound follower.
Also here are Marconi B3402 (Mk VII series), B3404 (Mk VIII series) plus two B3410 Digital Line Array. The B3404 and one of the line arrays are both in quite good working order. The Rank Cintel Mk III is almost working - just needs some more hours (like a lot of things . . .).
Telecine - the forgotten broadcast TV technology!
Best regards,
Paul M
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We had 4 colourised MkI's. All the electronics fitted within the main 'guts' of the machine itself and below the operators desk that generally sat beside it - there were no separate bays of equipment apart from a bay in CAR which held all the telecine encoders. The machines were all 'Uniplex', ie could do either 16mm or 35mm but not both so I am slightly confused by your post. The first dual gauge machine I worked on was the MkIII 16 & 35 mm as designed of course - hopping patch, wonderful bit of kit.
I too attended Plymouth Poly, the only telecine machine I remember was an old Marconi 'monster'! It was so big it was called nicknamed the 'Fish fryer' and looked pretty fearsome to the uninitiated! I think I still have my notes on it when we were required to a 'lab' on it. Once seen never forgotten, I think the Marconi training place in Chelmsford had one too.