Abstract: A noise and/or vibration damping system for an electric motor such as for use with a sound motion picture camera. In a preferred embodiment the electric motor includes a rotor shaft supported at either end thereof by bearings, a magnetic field assembly fixed to the motor case and concentrically positioned between the rotor shaft and the motor case, an armature winding assembly fixed to the rotor shaft concentrically positioned between the motor case and the magnetic field assembly, wherein the bearing means are supported upon the magnetic field assembly and are vibrationally isolated therefrom by plurality of O-rings concentrically positioned between the bearing means and the magnetic field assembly, the O-rings being axially spaced along the magnetic field assembly.

Abstract: In a video assist system, an intermittent composite video signal produced by a modified television camera from a motion-picture image is converted to a composite video output signal in a continuous television format, by writing a largely unprocessed intermittent signal (including composite color, intensity and timing information) into a field buffer and reading a continuous television output signal (including both control elements and data) from that field buffer. The field buffer may comprise multiplexed banks of static RAM, with separate read address and write address generators for reading and writing data independently. When a field is repeated on output, an even-lines field may follow a previous even-lines field or an odd-lines field may follow a previous odd-lines field.