A Film chain or Film island is a television - TV camera with one or more projectors aligned into the lens of the camera. With two or more projectors a system of front-surface mirrors that can pop-up are used in a multiplexer. These mirrors switch different projectors into the camera lens. The camera could be fed live to air for Broadcasting through a vision mixer or recorded to a VTR for post-production or later broadcast.
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