Ian:<br>Well, the Oz Scanimate had an interesting history.<div>Image West discovered it in a Levitz Furniture warehouse in Miami and bought it for a song.</div><div>I helped convert it to PAL (complete with huge humming step-up transformers), then they</div>
<div>shipped it to Sydney and it was installed at the 9 network. I know because I was sent to</div><div>"get it up to snuff" (It never really was completely "up to snuff" IMHO). </div><div>If I recall correctly the 9 netowrk engineer I worked with was Dave Rawlinson.</div>
<div>That is one drinking bunch of folks down there! They used to open up a bar in the</div><div>conference room every Friday at lunch and <u>nothing</u> got done until around noon on Monday.</div><div><br>I believe you're referring to Russ Maehl, who had been an "animator" at Image West, and appears</div>
<div>in the IW-15 demo reel with a big red bushy beard. Russ immigrated to Australia and last I heard</div><div>he is still there. If he ended up with the machine he won't admit it! I've been in touch with him</div>
<div>recently via Facebook, or LinkedIn, can't remember which.</div><div><br></div><div>I've heard rumours that the Japanese Scanimate is still intact but inscrutibly unknown.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Ian Richardson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:irichardson@cuttingedge.com.au">irichardson@cuttingedge.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Greetings All</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">A conversation over dinner resulted in
this link listed below regarding an ACR users group, and hopefully you will see
a new member to the Quad list soon</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Arrrh the Scanimate.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Well done Dave Sieg to keep one alive, yes
there was one in Sydney
but I believe it was run by ColourFilm Videolab at the time.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The ‘analogue Artist’ [my
term] was a Canadian Russ Maugher. It certainly had the wow factor in its day.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I seem to recall Russ eventually ‘secured’
the machine for himself and made a living from it for a while, and finally I
recall It and [I think He]</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">moved back to the US or Canada.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The memory fades these days.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Cheers From Down Under</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Ian
Richardson</span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Sydney</span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Oz</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Hi Ric</span></font><font size="1" color="navy" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:navy">h</span></font><font size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">o,</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">I meant to send you
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Good to see you last night.</span></font></p>
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