{"id":992,"date":"2012-03-30T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?p=992"},"modified":"2012-05-21T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T11:40:51","slug":"museum-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2012\/03\/museum-exhibits\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At lunch the other day Gerry Tivers gave me these for safe keeping. He thinks they should be in a museum, and so do I, but experience has shown that big museums aren&#8217;t that interested. They are probably deluged with old gear from every profession. Rather sad really, and perhaps there&#8217;s a gap in the market for some entrepreneurial \u00a0person, or maybe the GTC. \u00a0In the meantime, they&#8217;re stashed in the cupboard here, next to my edit control panel from VT6.<\/p>\n<p>(Update &#8211; they are now in the Alexandra Palace Television Society archive.)<\/p>\n<p>The protractors were designed for use with studio plans so that everyone would get an idea of what could be seen on a given lens and camera. Look closely at picture 2, and you&#8217;ll see that the device was designed in 1951 by famous BBC engineer D R Campbell. A BIG shot of the text is<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/bern\/protractor.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m also glad to have an internal envelope. Even though hundreds passed through my hands, there were none here till now.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2011\/12\/peter-sumpters-tv-centre-pictures\/ianfootersmall-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-832\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-832\" title=\"ianfootersmall\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ianfootersmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ianfootersmall.jpg 348w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ianfootersmall-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At lunch the other day Gerry Tivers gave me these for safe keeping. He thinks they should be in a museum, and so do I, but experience has shown that big museums aren&#8217;t that interested. They are probably deluged with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2012\/03\/museum-exhibits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bernard Newnham","author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/bern333\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 14 years ago","modified":"Updated 14 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 30, 2012","modified":"Updated on May 21, 2012"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 30, 2012 3:43 pm","modified":"Updated on May 21, 2012 11:40 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}