While we’re looking at things Nodal: The Sandin Analogue Image Processor (or IP) is an impressive looking device, and is demonstrated by a man in an impressive looking hat.


(If you’re impatient, skip towards the end for some analogue video trippy colour coolness)

There is so much beauty in this video: The hat. Analogue versions of effects we’re still using today. Calling a tech demo “a romp”. The Hat. The digital computers “kind of thing which does your bills and payroll” quip (inspiration for Apple perhaps?). Physical patching of video modules. THE HAT! WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

Ok, perhaps the hat is part of Dan Sandin’s “copy it right distribution religion”. Definitely a forward thinker, that man.

Via VideoThing

Previously: Free Vintage Fairlight VJ Clips.

5 responses to “Analogue Video Patching Romp: Image Processor Visits from 1973, Brings Hat”

  1. super trippy! for 1973, can you imagine? nixon was still in the whitehouse!

    (originally i had "whitehose" there – – perhaps the better choice afterall)

    kudos for finding this vintage bit of contemporary cinema!
    –S

  2. Jaymis says:

    Kudos should go to VideoThing. I'm just passing on the love.

  3. Leon Trimble says:

    "THE HAT! WHERE DID IT COME FROM?" The Hat! Where did it go?

  4. stuiethegod says:

    Ah, the good old IP… I got to play with one of those last fall in a class I was taking. Almost as cool as the Rutt Etre… damn I want to get my hands on one of those.

  5. Tim says:

    very cool, I love how the process hasn't really changed just the machines on which we do things

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