These are views of the two Scanimates at Image West in Hollywood.
This machine was Serial Number 5, and had an Apple II computer with
a board I built that had 3 D/A converters and a drawing tablet.
Unlike the R&D machine I have in my studio, the Image West Scanimates were housed in all-white racks, which went really well with the orange shag carpeting, don't you think? Hey, it was 1980!
The two machines were cross-tied so that analog signals from either
appeared on the other's patch panels.
Both machines received time-code triggers from the VTR room so
that their animations could be synced up with a previously
recorded element.
Both had switchers for their own preview, and on which appeared the various VTR's,
and the other Scanimate.
Appologies for the image quality, these are captured from a VHS video
Image West had a Grass Valley 1600 switcher, and one of the first Quantel framestore
devices. It would hold a whole NTSC frame!
the small monitors previewed the various VTR outputs.
There was also a studio camera and a stage, so we could do product shots.