Crystal Sync
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In the production of sound films - the separately recorded picture and sound have to be synchronised with an accuracy of two parts in 100,000 - usually requiring a mechanical or electrical link between the tape recorder and camera. Now crystal control enables camera and recorder to be operated completely independently.
- Researcher Comments
- Features the crystomatic system
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Cinema; Engineering
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/17
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sound
- Chris Wilden
- Camera
- Dick Ewen
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Howard Williams
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Producer
- Janice Willett / Kay
- Director
- Mark Lawton
- Cutter
- Peter Cullum
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk - Web
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
How to cite this record
'Crystal Sync', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 17, 1969. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/350819 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)