Film chain

Type of film island—film chain, a top view
Film Chain with 16mm projectors and a slide wheel at Armed Forces Radio and TV AFRN – AFRTS station WVCX/WVCQ

A film chain or film island is a televisionprofessional video camera with one or more projectors aligned into the photographic lens of the camera. With two or more projectors a system of front-surface mirrors that can pop-up are used in a multiplexer. These mirrors switch different projectors into the camera lens. The camera could be fed live to air for broadcasting through a vision mixer or recorded to a VTR for post-production or later broadcast. In most TV use this has been replaced by a telecine.


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