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[Bateman, Jack - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

280023

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1997-10-22

Item number (ISN):

280023

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: HEAD OFFICE, ORAL HISTORY RECORDINGS

Accession:

1998-0088

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1997-10-22

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Sandy Stewart

Description:

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Interview of Jack Bateman about his career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Bateman talks about: his interest in magic, which led to his interest in television; taking a radio course at the Radio College of Canada; working in a store in Whitby at a salary of five dollars a week; starting his own business called Radio Service Laboratory; his moving to England in 1937 because of his interest in television; his studies into television in England; his visits to the radio and television studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation; seeing the burning of the Hindenberg Zeppelin on television; the shortwave television broadcasts of Lafayette University; working for Simpsons department store; doing magic shows; building display windows for Simpsons; experimental television; the television demonstration at the New York World's Fair; garish colours used in early television makeup; the Queen agreeing to appear on television for the first time, in Ottawa; working during the Second World War at a factory that made radar sets; his work there as an inspector; travelling to the United States under strict security to show the American navy the radar equipment that was being developed; installing radar on PBY amphibian planes; the role of radar in improving television technology; the development of the image orthicon; Zworkin; Bateman's working in vaudeville before the war and putting on shows for the troops during the war; his switch from doing magic shows to a comedy act under the name The Wacky Wizard; being laid off from Research Enterprise; his new job installing Hammond electronic organs; getting into television because Quentin McLean of CBC radio needed his organ repaired; meeting Billy O'Connor; Reg Horton; doing a radio show with Rai Purdy called FIND YOUR FORTUNE; working for Famous Players; and a visit to an experimental television station in Chicago, which was run by Paramount Pictures.~Bateman also talks about: plans by Paramount to transfer television images to telecine, process it as film and project it in theatres; plans to use this hybrid television-film system at the Imperial Theatre in Toronto; his work to set up a television projection system at the Victoria Theatre; using a two-camera RCA chain; more details of how the system worked; picking up sports events from television stations in Buffalo and showing them on movie theatre screens; putting big television sets and large projection screens in movie theatre lobbies; designing a mobile film-television system; efforts by Famous Players to get a license to broadcast television in Canada; involvement by Jack Kent Cooke and CFRB; the awarding of the television broadcast license to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; the Famous Players' license to broadcast television in Quebec City; moving the mobile to Quebec City; television broadcasting at the Canadian National Exhibition; opposition by musicians at the CNE to being shown on camera; working as an audio operator and magician at the CNE; Reg Horton hiring Bateman on March 17, 1952 to be supervisor of remote operation for CBC television his career at the CBC to January 31, 1978; CBC technicians who worked for him; courses at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute on television, attended by the CBC technicians; a television program produced by the engineers called JACK MUSIC BARN and Norman Jewison's reaction to it; the X MARKS THE SPOT program from the CNE; Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth of McLaren Advertising; a magic show; the death of CBC technician Ian Murray; Harry Rasky; Norman Campbell; Sydney Newman; Ross McLean; changes in technology over the years; unions; cameramen; Charlie Quick; Winston Barron; and George Retzlaff.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Release form authorizes consultation and CBC broadcast and/or program use as of 22 October 1997.~2. Part of the CBC Oral History Project.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

339214

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1998-0088/041
1998-0088/042

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

99:30

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

390868

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2004-01-0072

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

74:44

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

390869

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2004-01-0073

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

50:40

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

600407

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

280023-1998-0088-41-S1.wav
280023-1998-0088-41-S2.wav
280023-1998-0088-42.wav

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

129:53

Made from:

1998-0088/41
1998-0088/42

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

600408

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

280023-1998-0088-41-S1.mp3
280023-1998-0088-41-S2.mp3
280023-1998-0088-42.mp3

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

129:53

Made from:

1998-0088/41
1998-0088/42

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1002083

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2004-01-0072
A4 2004-01-0073

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1998-0088/41
1998-0088/42

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2004-01-0072
A1 2004-01-0073

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of CBCOther restrictions vary.See MISACS item-level descriptions for more specific terms of use delineated on release forms.

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