ETF - 2007 Convention

2007 Early Television Convention

The 2007 Early Television Convention was held on Friday, May 4, Saturday, May 5, and Sunday, May 6 at the Early Television Museum in Hilliard, Ohio. The buffet lunch, presentations, and banquet were at the Makoy Center, a conference facility about 2 blocks from the museum.

In addition to the presentations described below, our working CBS Color Converter and Adapter and our Color mirror screw receiver were demonstrated

John Folsom demonstrated his NTSC "Personal" color wheel converter, similar to the COL-R-TEL, viewing our DuMont Royal Sovereign. Denis Asseman demonstrated his replica General Electric Octagon, and Darryl Hock showed his color neon lamp assembly, which was installed in our Western Visonette.

Pete Deksnis has published a report on the How Good can a picture be on a 15GP22 project on his website. Dave Sica wrote an article about the convention for the AWA Journal.

Pictures

Swap meet and auction

Museum

Presentations

Maurice Schechter's military TV display

Denis Asseman's mechanical replicas

Chuck Azzalina's vidicon camera

John Folsom's personal color viewer

More pictures can be found at the NJARC site

Saturday Presentations

Television at Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 1931-1952	George Lemaster
Screening of the Earliest Known Surviving Color Kinescope Film Recording of NTSC Color, courtesy of Research Video.	Ed Reitan
Ludwig Von Drake Meets the NBC Peacock: Walt Disney and the Color TV Revolution	Jim Fanning
Recollections of My Career in Television	John Battison
Waldemar Poch: The RCA Russian Television Project and Beyond	James O'Neal
The history of RCA's development of military television during WWII	Maurice Schechter
Replica General Electric Octagon	Denis Asseman
"The DuMont Years" as told by T.T. Goldsmith, Chief of Research	Don Patterson

Sunday Presentation

How good can a picture be on a 15GP22?

Wayne Bretl, Pete Deksnis, John Folsom, Ed Reitan

Here is what went on in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 conventions