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Posted by DaveM on 03/26/06 07:04
"Rich Grise, but drunk" <yahright@example.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.03.26.01.20.41.880333@example.net...
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:41:09 -0500, Jay Rose wrote:
>
>> On 2006-03-25 15:31:34 -0500, "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> said:
>>>
>>>> This is a shotgun mike, there's a sketch about 1/2 way down the page:
>>>> http://members.shaw.ca/roma/twenty-eight.html
>>>
>>> That was a crude, amateurish attempt at the technology behind a
>>> line-gradient ("shotgun") microphone.
>>
>> IIRC, RCA had a professional directional mic back in the 50s that used
>> multiple exposed tubes.
>
>
> I saw one on TeeVee, in about 1955, on the intro segment of "Science
> Fiction Theater". The host would kinda wander around this very
> scientifical- looking lab, and in this particular ep, he wound up at the
> shotgun mike, and I think the ep was about spying or something. Let's make
> that 1955 +- 2; I was just a kid barely starting school, maybe first
> grade, but I remember it because I was fascinated by it.
>
> Anyways, those shotgun mikes have been around about as long as audio
> electronics have been.
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
Oh Wow!!! I remember that episode too, as well as an episode that dealt with
a high energy sound cannon that supposedly incapacitated or killed anyone it was
fired at. Seems the good guy foiled the villain by using a round bottomed bowl
to redirect the blast back at the bad guy.
It was a great series for its time. Been hoping to see that series on TV Land,
but nothing as yet.
Cheers!
--
Dave M
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address)
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