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Poster:	dead-head_Monte	Date:	Sep 16, 2009 12:11pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Give thanks (NONDEAD)

I remain today, thanks to all of you, a cured man yet again - so that I may live yet another day on our planet. You all are my therapy and stress relief. I have learned enormously in your presence. I beg your indulgance once more, to thank an amazing engineer - Glenn Hill
— Tim Keefe, Monte Barry, Glenn Hill —

It was Glenn Hill who convinced all the Computer Image engineers to hire me there in Denver in 1984. It was Glenn who got me and him the gig backstage at Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 1986, because the incoming phone call - searching for freelance video engineers in Denver - came for Glenn. Under Glenn's leadership engineering role, we engineered an 8-camera shoot teleproduction at the Telluride festival. We were hired by the brand new $6 million TV truck, Challenger Productions, for this gig. Last thing I knew about Glenn Hill was that he worked at length as senior engineer for Sony Corporation in San Jose. Before all the digital imagery and digital computers, there were analog computers generating video imagery that was playing on your TV sets for 10 years. The Scanimate system, developed by Computer Image Corporation in Denver, is the essential device from this era. Glenn and Monte are listed on the Scanimate alumni webpage.

Scanimate video trailer

"I knew I had really gone commercial
was when I 'glowed toilet' paper."

Scanimate was developed in the 1960s