[GreenKeys] AN/FGC-38 Torn-Tape Relay Equipment

[Richard Knoppow]

    All this reminds me of the old way of editing motion pictures. The 
editor had a work print which he cut into shots. Each might be anywhere 
from a few inches to several feet. Sometimes wound up on itself or 
hanging on pegs. The idea was to never throw anything away, not even a 
single frame. Otherwise one had to get a reprint (expensive). All this 
was stuck together to make something, a scene or more. When finished the 
special effects (like fades and dissolves) would be added and the 
negative cut to conform with the work print. The common tool was the 
Movieola machine, look this up on Google. Later much more sophisticated 
editing machines were devised but the old Movieola was the standby for 
decades. Sometimes longer pieces of film were kept in canvas bins. 
Heaven help anyone who trampled on any.

On 8/27/2017 11:39 PM, Paul Birkel wrote:
> Thanks Dave.  More great info!  A “couple of hundred feet” would seem to 
> be a real challenge to get from the receiver to another transmitter 
> without a snarl-up.  What’s to preclude “over-running” the pink 
> tape-end-coming-soon indicator and having a tape run-out before a 
> message completes?  Just monitor the receipt, accept that sometimes this 
> will happen (like various categories of receiver mechanical problems) 
> and ask for a retransmit should that happen?  Did the sectioning policy 
> manage to avoid this, by keeping the tape-length for a section less than 
> the pink-length?  Under heavy traffic conditions how long would a 
> tape-roll last and how did you manage to avoid running out of tape 
> mid-message?


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Richard Knoppow
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