<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
<div>Very sorry to hear this, as he's one of the pioneering people I'd hoped to talk with on-camera.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I did speak with him by phone (or was it e-mail) in connection with getting permission to post to the Quad website an article that appeared in a Ventura Co. publication. I got his OK and that of the publication. I'll try to find it on my big Mac during AMIA and post.</div><br><div><div>On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Patrick Kennedy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Art passed away in Los Angeles back on Oct. 1st. He was 80.</div> <div>You can watch some interviews with Art about his career and history of early TV on the Archives of American Television website, or just Google "Arthur Schneider" for other stuff.</div> <div>He was an incredibly talented man and a great coworker. I'd like to see some tribute of him either through Archives, or perhaps here at the Library of Congress. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Pat Kennedy</div> <div>Library of Congress</div> </blockquote><br></div><div>Back in January, there was thread about editing the Gene Kelly specials, and the NBC kine/tape editing method.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I advised:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The answer is that NBC did indeed make kinescopes and edit the film, then matchback using tape.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The late engineer/editing system and software designer Jack Callaway has a description on his website, in the museum section:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#0018ea" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #0018ea"><a href="http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/index.html"><u>http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/index.html.</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">(Link will no longer work, since the site is down after Jack's passing. The OldBoy's VTR site in the UK has the content up and you may find it there.)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Click on the "Offline" link in the left nav bar and look for "Laugh In" in the middle of the page:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">One of the most popular shows of its day was NBC's "Laugh-In" (1968 - 1973). This show was recorded and conformed on two inch tape, but edited on film. This was done before the advent of Time Code or electronic editing.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">During taping, "Editor Sync Guide" (ESG) was recorded on the second audio channel. ESG consists of two voices counting.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">After taping, the selected takes were transferred to 16-millimeter film, with mag audio, and the ESG.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">The film and audio tracks were then cut using tradition film techniques.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">Once the offline was completed, the video tape editor manually conformed the video tape, using the Smith splicer, and making his cuts based on the ESG. <br> <br> Click here if you're interested in more about <a href="http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/offline/esg.html"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: #0018ea"><u>Editors Sync Guide</u></font></a> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">for an article written by Art Schneider, ACE in December, 2002. It's a really detailed description of the process.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">There's an audio sample of the Editor's Sync Guide as a Quicktime file.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Schneider edited the Gene Kelly Pontiac Star Parade special that started this thread, and was first used on the 1958 Fred Astaire special previously posted about.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The direct link is here: <a href="http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/offline/esg.htm"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: #0018ea">http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/offline/esg.html</font></a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Arthur Schneider, A.C.E., started in television in 1951 with NBC at the Sunset and Vine Studios. His autobiography "Jump Cut! Memoirs of a Pioneer Television Editor" details his career.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Jump Cut!"</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">McFarland & Co.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Box 611</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Jefferson</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">North Carolina 28640</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">He wrote four books, including "My Fifty Years of Television History: Been There, Done That." and two others... technical books about electronic post.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">He had a website that's not now active, but has been archived here:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#0018ea" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #0018ea"><a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/restlkln/"><u>http://mysite.verizon.net/restlkln/</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Art was very prolific about sharing his life and livelyhood through books and teaching. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Some of the other pioneers haven't been chronicled. Retired CBS TVC tape engineer John Radis in the LA area is one person. He's the guy seen bending over the control panel of the Ampex deck in the famous pictures of the first use of videotape by a network.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">If anyone on the list IS an aging pioneer or knows some in their area, please consider recording your experiences or finding a way to do a videotaped interview with them about their experiences.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">We'll find some folks on the list to help edit them into segments, and post on the site... and lodge the complete tape with the Library of Congress through QuadList Member James Snyder, who has an ongoing project of this nature.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Ted.</font></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div> <div><div>Ted Langdell</div><div>Secretary</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>See you in St. Louis.</div><div></div></div> </div><br></body></html>