Screen captures, 1960s style
When I was 12, for no particular reason other than kindness, my dad's best friend Arnie gave me his Canon Demi EE17 camera. Until my mom stole it four years later and gave it away to "our needy cousins," that Demi was one of my primary means of self expression.
I took pictures of everything, no matter how mundane the subject. This included "screen captures" from my old RCA Victor portable TV. One of my favorite horror flicks was an old B-movie called Pit and The Pendulum. In it, they dug up this dead lady and found that she had been BURIED ALIVE! >:D They showed this movie like a dozen times a year on Channel 9, and one of the first pics I took with my new camera was of this totally bitchen screaming mummy!!!
Honestly, in those days, this was an extremely shocking image for commercial television. It practically made me pee my pants when I first saw it as a little boy. ^_^
Another early screen capture was this image of my first total eclipse of the sun (November 12, 1966). They showed it live on TV in L.A., which was pretty remarkable (though I saw/photographed the broadcast on tape delay later that evening).
BTW, I had that vacuum tube RCA TV up until 1985, when I bought my first color portable. Perhaps needless to say, most of my old television memories are in black and white. ^_^
I took pictures of everything, no matter how mundane the subject. This included "screen captures" from my old RCA Victor portable TV. One of my favorite horror flicks was an old B-movie called Pit and The Pendulum. In it, they dug up this dead lady and found that she had been BURIED ALIVE! >:D They showed this movie like a dozen times a year on Channel 9, and one of the first pics I took with my new camera was of this totally bitchen screaming mummy!!!
Honestly, in those days, this was an extremely shocking image for commercial television. It practically made me pee my pants when I first saw it as a little boy. ^_^
Another early screen capture was this image of my first total eclipse of the sun (November 12, 1966). They showed it live on TV in L.A., which was pretty remarkable (though I saw/photographed the broadcast on tape delay later that evening).
BTW, I had that vacuum tube RCA TV up until 1985, when I bought my first color portable. Perhaps needless to say, most of my old television memories are in black and white. ^_^