In reponse to Richard
Armstrong's query, it's slightly complicated by the fact that the French,
Americans and French-Canadians each used slightly different systems, but in
general it's safe to say that the first systems using lightweight 16mm cameras
and portable battery-operated tape recorders were in use in
1959. In the French system, the
camera designed by Coutant was the Eclair and the tape recorder was the Nagra
designed by Kudelski. However, the date of first use isn't necessarily the date
the equipment 'first came on the market', because in all these instances they were using prototype system
which in the USA and Canada they had partly developed themselves. It is also
not safe to say that there was no synchronous location shooting prior to
1959, since there were sound-on-film cameras available before that year which
were in use for television news reporting.
Michael
Chanan
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