{"id":23737,"date":"2014-11-01T05:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T09:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23737"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:37:48","slug":"before-character-generation-there-was-this-then-came-vidifontthe-first-elec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23737","title":{"rendered":"Before Character Generation, There Was This&#8230;Then Came Vidifont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Character Generation, There Was This&#8230;Then Came Vidifont<\/p>\n<p>The first electronic graphics machine used in US television production was the CBS Vidifont system. As told by the man that developed it, Stanley Baron, here is the story of how it came to be.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ethw.org\/First-Hand:Inventing_the_Vidifont:_the_first_electronics_graphics_machine_used_in_television_production\">https:\/\/ethw.org\/First-Hand:Inventing_the_Vidifont:_the_first_electronics_graphics_machine_used_in_television_production<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before 1968, television graphics were either movable letters on a slot board like this, text on a slide, or white letters on a black flip card, or rolling credit drum that were superimposed over live shots. I thought Chyron was the first with this, but as it turns out, it was CBS Labs that lead the way. It&#8217;s an interesting story so enjoy and share. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/748906095146942\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Before-Character-Generation-There-Was-This...Then-Came-Vidifont-The-first-elec\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/748910021813216\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Character Generation, There Was This&#8230;Then Came Vidifont The first electronic graphics machine used in US television production was the CBS Vidifont system. As told by the man that developed it, Stanley Baron, here is the story of how it came to be. https:\/\/ethw.org\/First-Hand:Inventing_the_Vidifont:_the_first_electronics_graphics_machine_used_in_television_production Before 1968, television graphics were either movable letters on a slot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23738,"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":[783,756,732],"class_list":["post-23737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-chyron","tag-graphics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737","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=23737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59551,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737\/revisions\/59551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}