{"id":22067,"date":"2016-04-12T05:54:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22067"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:21:33","slug":"teletales-266-tv-golf-in-the-1950swith-the-masters-fresh-on-our-minds-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22067","title":{"rendered":"TeleTales  #266&#8230;TV Golf In The 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TeleTales  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/266\">#266<\/a>&#8230;TV Golf In The 1950s<\/p>\n<p>With The Master&#8217;s fresh on our minds, here is a look at how CBS covered a match in Palm Springs in 1956&#8230;with very long lenses.<\/p>\n<p>This is an extended Zoomar Field Lens on an RCA TK11\/31. The studio version was the TK11, and the field version was the TK31;  the only real difference between the two control chains is that the field version&#8217;s power supply required less voltage. The camera heads were the same. <\/p>\n<p>Notice the operator is using a rod through the camera for zoom and focus. For zoom in close, you pushed the rod in, and pulled it out for a zoom out to a wide shot. For focus, you turned the rod left or right.  Many of the pro cameramen carried their zoom rod with them in a hard case, because working with a bent rod (no pun intended) made the zoom and focus jumpy and ragged.   <\/p>\n<p>The camera is mounted on one of the coolest mobile peds ever, the Baughman Spider pedestal. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/991409730896576\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TeleTales-266...TV-Golf-In-The-1950s-With-The-Masters-fresh-on-our-minds-he\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/991409730896576\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TeleTales #266&#8230;TV Golf In The 1950s With The Master&#8217;s fresh on our minds, here is a look at how CBS covered a match in Palm Springs in 1956&#8230;with very long lenses. This is an extended Zoomar Field Lens on an RCA TK11\/31. The studio version was the TK11, and the field version was the TK31; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}