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[Bateman, Jack - Interview]

Numéro d'article (ISN) :

280023

Niveau hiérarchique :

Pièce (Niveau acquisition)

Date :

1997-10-22

Numéro d'article (ISN) :

280023

Genre de documents :

Documents sonores

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Archives / Films, vidéos et enregistrements sonores

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Notice descriptive – Détails

Fonds/collection :

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

No d'acquisition :

1998-0088

Support :

Enregistrement sonore

Partie :

2 of 2

Date de production :

1997-10-22

Compagnie de production :

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Générique (équipe de production) :

interviewer, Sandy Stewart

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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.

Langue :

English

Remarques :

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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.
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Libre

No de consultation :

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

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