Roll Credits For ’60 Minutes’
On October 9, 2013
- TV History
Roll Credits!
This photo taken in Studio 45 shows the ’60 Minutes’ credit roll board around 1973. This is how it was done in “the old days”. Thanks to Glenn Mack for the photo.
That’s just awesome!
We rolled a big oil barrel sideways painted black with magnetic stick on letters at WFRV TV Green Bay WI in 1969 … cameras were Norelco PC 70s, and we split the fader bar to super impose titling on a RCA TS5 video switcher… We called the titles… “Supers” … I feel so old…giggle!
I remember this well. Same as at NBC. When a name changed you ordered a “patch” a name white on black that had self stick tape.
Wow! The back-lit drum we had at Channel 11 was really high-tech after all!
i remember the big black wheel that we used at ch 3 the thing that people today would not beleave is the hot press first set metal type, then heat up, place a black paper under with white transfer tape, then press
And, of course, the ever popular cafeteria board with plastic letters.
At WTTW we had a clear drum with lighting inside that stats could be mounted on.
Funny stuff Bill Jenkin.
I once saw a credit roll that was mounted as an arc; the camera was meant to be at the center point and would tilt down the credits. May have been a one-off experiment. I saw it a Chicago station in the 1960s, but couldn’t say for sure at which one.
We were using art cards and key cameras in post well into the 90s especially for movie ratings: G,PG,R…
And of course, logos.
We were still using super cards well into the 80s, particularly to add distinctive fonts to the mix.
We used credit rolls like this at WTVT in Tampa until about 1973 or so; several of us were training on the Vidifont character generator serial #0002, one of the earliest in use I guess. We also used a spaghetti board and had scores of “super cards” until the Vidifont came into general use.
as in “cue the f***ing roller” at the end of this clip.
http://youtu.be/XTgCLfYdRo4
oh yea!!! back in the day…..
“roll credits”
Remember this well.
This would actually be a roll, not a crawl…