Imero Fiorentino on working on the first Telstar satellite transmission

Lighting designer Imero Fiorentino, who lit the first broadcast sent by the Telstar satellite in 1962, shares the groundbreaking significance of this broadcast:

“Telstar had been put into orbit, and it was to achieve this never before achieved feat of receiving a signal and transmitting it back. When it did that it opened what we know today as satellite communication around the world. It had never been done. Pictures had been sent out and signals have been sent out, but never out and back. That allowed the signal to go over the curvature of the Earth to another place, and it opened up all satellite communication.”

Watch Imero Fiorentino’s full interview, where he discusses his career as a lighting designer, including in the early years of television.

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