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<DIV>James & Ted:</DIV>
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<DIV>There were certainly color facilities in Australia in '74. I don't
know about broadcast, but production was already in color. If you haven't
already seen my clip on YouTube from AAV, you can see it here:</DIV>
<DIV> <A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwZWLPpcFM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwZWLPpcFM</A></DIV>
<DIV>And to stay on topic, it includes 3 different models of
quads! I'll be posting several more segments from there shortly which have
additional shots of the equipment then in use.</DIV>
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<DIV>Don Norwood<BR>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<BR><A
href="http://www.digitrakcom.com">www.digitrakcom.com</A></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=james@oldtvgear.com href="mailto:james@oldtvgear.com">James
Paterson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 08, 2010 7:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [QuadList] frost nixon
film</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>the monitor also looks strangely like a 1990's
sony trinitron cube style studio monitor</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>...yes in the same segment he asks "is it
live" - and the aussie says "yes"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>live and in color? i dont know about that here in
1974 ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>no tally lamps on any of the cameras come
on</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ted@quadvideotapegroup.com
href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted Langdell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:48
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [QuadList] frost nixon
film</DIV>
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<DIV>On Jun 8, 2010, at 12:45 AM, James Paterson wrote:</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">The scenes supposed to be in australia were
factually very incorrect so far as the tv equipment is
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>The goof list includes:</DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span>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>
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class=Apple-style-span>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>
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class=Apple-style-span>In one scene, <A style="COLOR: rgb(0,51,153)"
href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296484/">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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>Anyone recognize any names?</DIV>
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<DIV>Know what company supplied the truck and cameras used? Whether
the movie is accurate in its portrayal of equipment?</DIV>
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<DIV>And since the programs were recorded in 1977, were they on Quad or 1"?
Edited on? Where?</DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>Ted.</DIV></DIV><BR>
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