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Making Book on ENG
by Doug Sheer on 06/02/10
Its virtually 30 years since C. Robert Paulson, who past away March 24, 2010 at the age of 87, wrote the principal chapters of the 1981 publication, BM/E's ENG/EFP/EPP Handbook: Guide to Electronic News-gathering of which I was editor and publisher, being then, Broadcast Management / Engineering's and World Broadcast News' Associate Publisher and Director of Special Projects.
The book was the seminal publication regarding the then emerging arena of electronic news gathering. The additional editor -- for the audio sections -- was the late writer Robert Rivlin. The introduction was by CBS TV's Dr. Joseph C. Flaherty, long considered the 'father of HDTV' but also a creator of the modern newsroom technology and promoter of that phenomenon. The broadcasting industry had just begun experimenting with the idea of tape-based field gathering and eliminating 16MM cameras that were the standard, along with the ubiquitous Nagra portable audio recorder, for shooting the news. In the mid-70s, RCA and Ikegami pioneered the 'Handi-Walkie' shoulder mountable camcorders and although they were hefty, they made film obsolete for news. They were quickly followed by many other brands


