Grass Valley: Planet Killer, great routers too

  This article is NOT a big revelation about the fact that the lever pushed in "Star Wars" destroyed a planet.   Everybody knows that.  But since we were discussing the Grass Valley 1600 4S master control switcher in the previous article, I thought it would be useful to revisit the Grass Valley production switcher called the 1600 3G.

So KPBS, San Diego had one of these switchers and eventually it became quite clear when watching Star Wars that they had the exact same model.  So one night my friend Frank and I took my 8mm camera, lined it up just right, vaguely reproduced the lighting and which buttons on M/E2 (mix/effects 2) were lit in the Star Wars shot.