<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>After sculpting many post production suites, long-time Post Production, Quad and Telecine engineer Dave Corbitt is retiring at the end of the week. (Officially Aug. 1, according to our friend Rob Linglebach on the Telecine Internet Group list). </div><div><br></div><div>His long career began in 1974 wrangling Ampex and RCA Quads, early telecine gear and building what wasn't available off the shelf for Telectronics International. Dave became the Eastern US Service Manager for Rank Cintel in 1980.</div><div><br></div><div>R&D at Tape House Editorial, Director of Telecine Engineering at Manhattan Transfer/Edit, Engineering and sales support for ITK, and then Thomas Electronics led back to the post world as CE of Post Logic Studios in New York City. Since then, he's managed sales for FrontNICHE's LCD monitor line, and since 2007 has been at HBO Studios in NYC helping turn SD facilities into HD through design and coordination of the constructionm manual writing and staff training.</div><div><br></div><div>Outside of work, Dave's learned how to "pound a good sandpile," and has created some amazing sand sculptures like this one:</div><div><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~dcorbitt77/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-2028905.html">http://home.comcast.net/~dcorbitt77/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-2028905.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>We hope he decides to write a book about his experiences. It should be a fun read.</div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations, Dave.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><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>