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red16v · 16th Jul 2020, 9:55 pm

This thread is exercising me too! Thinking about it, and in line with VE’s memories, I recall the telecine machine at Plymouth was a rather unusual dark bronze colour so I think it was likely to be a MkI which ties in with Paul’s Plymouth recollections (I was there in 1975/76). In which case the ‘fish fryer’ I saw must have been the one at Marconi’s college - I attended a MkIX camera course there in the early 80’s.

Thanks for those photos. Interesting that there is reference to both Cintel and Rank Cintel so I wonder if the adverts cover the period during which Cintel was bought by Rank? Some ‘monster’ sized kit in those photos so more than likely to be valved unlike the machines
I worked on which were all solid state machines.

16th Jul 2020, 9:55 pm	#14
red16v Heptode Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Winchester, Hampshire, UK. Posts: 639	Re: Rank Cintel TK This thread is exercising me too! Thinking about it, and in line with VE’s memories, I recall the telecine machine at Plymouth was a rather unusual dark bronze colour so I think it was likely to be a MkI which ties in with Paul’s Plymouth recollections (I was there in 1975/76). In which case the ‘fish fryer’ I saw must have been the one at Marconi’s college - I attended a MkIX camera course there in the early 80’s. Thanks for those photos. Interesting that there is reference to both Cintel and Rank Cintel so I wonder if the adverts cover the period during which Cintel was bought by Rank? Some ‘monster’ sized kit in those photos so more than likely to be valved unlike the machines I worked on which were all solid state machines.