<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 11.00.9600.18098"></HEAD>
<BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000"
bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document
color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(63,69,73); TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT: 15px/21px Georgia, Times, serif; WIDOWS: 1; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">
<DIV><SPAN class=date><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV class=section_twocolumn
style="BACKGROUND: url(http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/magazine/graphics/section_twocolumn-bg.gif) rgb(255,255,255) repeat-y; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; ZOOM: 1; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT: 13px/17px 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WIDOWS: 1; LETTER-SPACING: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">
<DIV class=section_column1
style="OVERFLOW: hidden; WIDTH: 390px; FLOAT: left; DISPLAY: inline">
<DIV class=standfirst>
<P
style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: bold 1.07em/18px 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; font-stretch: normal"><FONT
size=3>Engineer Bill Vinten, the son of William Vinten who founded the eponymous
camera support equipment firm, passed away on Sunday 8
November.</FONT></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Very sad... passing of one of the greats in the industry. We have a
MK III Head in the SMECC communications collection here in Arizona just by
itself displayed as though a fine piece of art. There is a really great photo I
have seen out there of Bill posed with that - - we would love a hi res scan of
it to put next to the head. ..... We of course have some Vinten heads on the
peds we have cameras on but this one is so perfect condition we decided to
display it as just it self.... and ... what a game changer it was for industry!
Goodbye Bill and thanks for all you brought to the industry. Ed Sharpe Archivist
for SMECC<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><A
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; TEXT-DECORATION: none; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,238) !important; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: 15px/1 Georgia, Times, serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; transition: color 0.1s linear; -webkit-transition: color 0.1s linear"
href="http://smecc.org/" rel=nofollow><STRONG>smecc.org</STRONG></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#3f4549 face=Georgia><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#3f4549 face=Georgia><STRONG>read these GTC allows
us to share on our SMECC site about and by
Bill</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#3f4549 face=Georgia></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT: medium Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; WIDOWS: 1; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><B><FONT
size=4>Read GTC ZERB Magazine article -<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A style="COLOR: rgb(153,51,102)"
href="http://www.smecc.org/media/rca-tv/Bill%20Vinten%20final.pdf"
target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff>"Bill Vinten
Remembers"</FONT></A></FONT></B></P>
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT: medium Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; WIDOWS: 1; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><B><FONT
size=4>Read GTC ZERB Magazine article -<BR><A style="COLOR: rgb(153,51,102)"
href="http://www.smecc.org/media/rca-tv/Vinten%20history%20final.pdf"
target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff>"A Bird in the Hand - Celebrating a century of
excellence from Vinten"</FONT></A></FONT></B></P>
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT: medium Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; WIDOWS: 1; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><FONT
size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>
<DIV>also see
<H1
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; ZOOM: 1; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT: bold 2.76em/40px 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 4px; WIDOWS: 1; LETTER-SPACING: normal; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-stretch: normal"><FONT
size=3>Vitec boss pays tribute to camera support pioneer Bill
Vinten</FONT></H1></DIV>
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT: medium Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; WIDOWS: 1; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">
<A
href="http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/techfacils/vitec-boss-pays-tribute-to-camera-support-pioneer-bill-vinten/5096747.article">http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/techfacils/vitec-boss-pays-tribute-to-camera-support-pioneer-bill-vinten/5096747.article</A>#</FONT></P>
<P
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,102); FONT: medium Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; WIDOWS: 1; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><FONT
size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </P></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>