Posted by Glen R. Southworth on August 04, 1999 at 14:25:34:
I was appointed Director of Television Studios at WSC
in the mid 1950's and learned that the old Dumont Image
Orthicon TV camera chain could make beautiful pictures
if you ignored the operating instructions (standard
procedures made nearly everything look like it had been
processed through an XEROX copier of that era.) Anyway,
this episode changed my life and I started thinking of
new ways to use television.
Decided to join the aerospace community in 1960 and
spent four years working on state of the art digital
television including development of high speed encoding
equipment, special test instruments, a high resolution
(1,500 line)Video Test Facility for NASA, and writing a
forgotten number of proposals.
Started my own company in 1965 which persists until
this day http://www.colorado-video.com Retired three
years ago and started called Electronic Time
Exposures. (Should really have called it Video Time
Exposures, because thats actually what it's about.)
Some things that I'm proud of:
- Pictures of Earth recorded for VOYAGER spacecraft
- UPI Newstime and The Women's Channel
- Contributions to TeleMedicine through Slow-scan TV
- Support of Distance Learning via phone line television
- Colorado Video, Incorporated
- The Video Peak Store
- An Emmy
Major interests: Video research, particularly in the
area of finding new ways of looking at the world.
I am married, with three grown kids.
Best wishes
Glen Southworth
ELECTRONIC TIME EXPOSURES
Boulder, Colorado