<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Kyle,<div><br></div><div>Very surprising. Thanks for the details. Sounds like it worked OK when needed. Was the system used for programming or news footage... or just the PSA's.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you remember whether the sound was optical or magnetic?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm thinking magnetic.</div><div><br></div><div>Partial interest as I rep a German HD 8/S8 transfer system... and looking back makes me truly appreciate where we are today.</div><div><br></div><div>Now back to figuring out where to stay <i>near</i> but not <i>in</i> lower Manhattan tomorrow and Friday night... or longer : ) I'm thinking in Secaucus or elsewhere in the Meadowlands. Suggestions welcome. Off list replies, please to <a href="mailto:ted@flashscan8.us">ted@flashscan8.us</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Now back to our regularly scheduled TCR-100 thread...</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:51 PM, <a href="mailto:KYLEBOOK@aol.com">KYLEBOOK@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"> <div>Hi Ted,</div> <div> </div> <div>To be specific, these were Super 8 projectors. In addition to the standard 16MM RCA projectors, WGGB's telecine area had these 3 side-mounted (onto poles) Bell & Howell Super 8 projectors. Physically, they were slightly larger than a first-aid kit, with a feeder reel on top, take up reel on the bottom, and a door on the front to access the threading area, focus knobs & lens. Each of the machines had its own CCU, located next to the master control switcher, and its own telecine island & mirrors. The quality was not nearly as good as the 16MM, with rather saturated chroma levels & orangey flesh tones that the CCU couldn't completely eliminate.</div> <div> </div> <div>The PSAs themselves were super 8mm films provided by state & federal government agencies, generally 1-2 minutes, on subjects like drunk driving, poison control, fire prevention, etc.</div> <div> </div> <div>The operative attitude was "Well, it's better than black or an ID slide".</div> <div> </div> <div>In the 6 months I worked at Channel 40 as tape op in 1985, I only participated in one outright TCR crash that forced us to use the Super 8 projectors. Murphy's Law being what it is, the TCR went down (due to a faulty tractor belt) an hour after the 11 O'Clock news ended, and another hour before sign-off, after the on-duty engineer had left for the night. The station was running a syndicated show called "Tales From The Darkside", followed by a rerun of the old NBC show "Real People", and a 15-minute late newscast from the ABC Network, taped at 11 O'Clock (on the station's lone 1" machine, a Sony BVH-2500). There was only 1 paid spot (our sign on & sign offs were always preceded by a spot for a local discount retail store) the rest of the night, so the engineer said he'd be in before sign-on, so the rest of night was spent scrambling to grab as many Super 8 PSAs, and stringing them as fast as possible.</div> <div> </div> <div>Such is life in the small markets...</div> <div> </div> <div>Kyle Bookholz</div> <div> </div> <div> <br> <br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"></div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica,arial">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Ted Langdell <<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br> To: Quad List <<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br> Sent: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 9:00 pm<br> Subject: [QuadList] 8mm film at WGGB-- (was Re: TCR-100)<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_3_7f58b24c-f174-48c3-976b-59a6c20f224b"><br> <div> <div>On Feb 3, 2010, at 7:37 PM, <a href="mailto:KYLEBOOK@aol.com">KYLEBOOK@aol.com</a> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote style="FONT-SIZE: 17px" type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT-VARIANT: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>if "Fred" took a siesta, the backup was PSAs on 8mm projectors,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></blockquote><br> </div> <div>8mm? 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