Film chain

The multiplexer with the camera and projectors surrounding it would often be called a film island.

The optical or mag or magnetic strip soundtrack on the motion picture would be picked up by the projector and would be fed to an audio sound mixing console or to the VTR.

A film chain usually used a video camera tube as this reduced flicker.

Early film chains had black and white (B&W) cameras and many were later replaced with color.

Professional video cameras made for film chains were used for broadcast use.

A scene-by-scene color correction option was later added to film chains.

At the mark (the notch or the electronic sprocket-count number) the next stored color correction would occur.

The introduction of the Rank Cintel Mark III flying spot scanner and Bosch Fernseh FDL60, called a telecines, paved the way to shift from projector-based transfer to a gentler system, continuous transport motion, that allowed the easy transfer of negative film and print film and thus the decline of film chains.