<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 8, 2010, at 12:45 AM, James Paterson wrote:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div></div></span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div><blockquote type="cite">The scenes supposed to be in australia were factually very incorrect so far as the tv equipment is concerned.</blockquote></div></span></div><div><br></div><div><div>There are goofs reported on IMDB:</div><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/goofs">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/goofs</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div>The transmission as if it were live in color is doubtful...we still were importing a lot of 16mm kine recordings of us news which i think</div><div>came from VISNEWS, and were horribly crap quality but go around the standards conversions.</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The goof list includes:</div><div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">Early in the film Frost is shown in an Australian TV studio watching the August 1974 broadcast of Nixon's resignation speech on live television. The broadcast is in color. Australia didn't introduce color TV until March 1975.<br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">While Frost and his team are doing research, modern VHS cassettes are visible in one scene. While the VHS format debuted in September 1976, it's extremely unlikely that they would have had VHS tapes of events that happened 2 years earlier.<br></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">In one scene, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296484/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">David Frost</a> tapes a segment with an escape artist in front of the Sydney Opera House, for his Australian talk show. The Quay Grand apartment complex, also known as "The Toaster", is in the background. It was built in 1999.</span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/locations">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/locations</a></div><div>Shows only the Sydney Opera House as an Australian location... but that doesn't rule out other locations.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the original Nixon/Frost sessions—"The Nixon Interviews"—here's the Crew list:</div><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261639/fullcredits">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261639/fullcredits</a></div><div><br></div><div>Anyone recognize any names?</div><div><br></div><div>Know what company supplied the truck and cameras used? Whether the movie is accurate in its portrayal of equipment?</div><div><br></div><div>And since the programs were recorded in 1977, were they on Quad or 1"? Edited on? Where?</div><div><br></div><div>James: You mention Visnews and Kines. Reminds me of taking some 16mm 7242 color reversal film into Allied Diner labs (or was it just Leo Diner then) in San Francisco, just down Golden Gate Ave. from ABC owned KGO-TV.</div><div><br></div><div>Diner had a bench with three or four kine recording setups and telco lines that brought—if I remember correctly from back in 1974—ABC, NBC and CBS into the building so they could record material for processing and shipment to Australia.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted.</div></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -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: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>