Parc Jarry on TV

[tugger]

mlb network is now showing a 1970 expos-pirates game. Broadcast quality slightly higher than the Apollo 11 mooncast. CBC apparently couldn't spring for a centerfield camera.

[Pikachu732001]

mlb network is now showing a 1970 expos-pirates game. Broadcast quality slightly higher than the Apollo 11 mooncast. CBC apparently couldn't spring for a centerfield camera.

I believe the game tape is actually a kinescope of the original. And yes I notice the lack of a camera too.

[Greg B.]

Yes, strangely, CBC was still making kinescopes even then. Not sure why since they were also using videotape by that time, but several Expos games from that era I have seen clips from were on kinescope.

Since we don't get MLB Network in Canada, who is the broadcast team? Hal Kelly and Jim Hearn?

[Bazookadale]

Yes, strangely, CBC was still making kinescopes even then. Not sure why since they were also using videotape by that time, but several Expos games from that era I have seen clips from were on kinescope.



Kinescope in 1970 - unbelievable :crazy

[EdTarbusz]

Yes, strangely, CBC was still making kinescopes even then. Not sure why since they were also using videotape by that time, but several Expos games from that era I have seen clips from were on kinescope.

Since we don't get MLB Network in Canada, who is the broadcast team? Hal Kelly and Jim Hearn?


It was Hal Kelly and Don Drysdale.

[EdTarbusz]

I believe the game tape is actually a kinescope of the original. And yes I notice the lack of a camera too.

I thought it was a kinescope as well because it was almost impossible to follow the ball, and the ballpark looked very dark.

[exposhistory]

CBC used kinescopes through 1970 before switching to tape in 1971 - the kinescopes were used to ship shows across the country to be shown in remote areas - it's great that some survived. I've seen many video clips from 1971-1973 in colour so hopefully they'll dig some of those games up some day.