{"id":14475,"date":"2019-04-24T06:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T10:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14475"},"modified":"2019-04-24T00:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T04:42:19","slug":"a-head-for-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-head-for-news\/","title":{"rendered":"a head for news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14476\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/I-am-a-camera-LIFE-Nov.-14-1955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14476\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14476\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/I-am-a-camera-LIFE-Nov.-14-1955-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who&#8217;s a camera?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the 1950s TV was rapidly taking hold as a source for daily news (not the mess of so called &#8220;entertainment&#8221; we see today amongst the plethora of commercials). Newsreels of the day were shot on film in clips, edited and spliced before being broadcast. And as usual, demanded a tripod for stability so viewers didn&#8217;t feel sea-sick.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=zVQEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">November 14 issue of LIFE magazine near the end of 1955<\/a>, posted this photograph of Bill Horton of Oklahoma City station KWTV in city council with his improvised replacement for the heavy tripod usually used in TV newsreels. Bill&#8217;s photograph appears in the Miscellany column of LIFE \u00a0magazine (page 204). A thanks to Goldie for catching this bit of history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the 1950s TV was rapidly taking hold as a source for daily news (not the mess of so called &#8220;entertainment&#8221; we see today amongst the plethora of commercials). Newsreels of the day were shot on film in clips, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-head-for-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1983],"tags":[183,2553,14,425,93,2552,2551],"class_list":["post-14475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","tag-american","tag-bill-horton","tag-film","tag-life","tag-movie","tag-oklahoma","tag-tv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14480,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475\/revisions\/14480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}