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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-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: 0px; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Quad Video recovery by one of our QuadList members is getting a second look with new footage <b>this Saturday</b> at the<a href="http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2010/schedule.htm"><b> AMIA "The Reel Thing"</b></a> in Los Angeles.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The 25th presentation features evening screenings: The 4K restoration of Dr. Zhivago, the restored Fantasia and a sneak preview of a restored major classic.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ending two days of film and cinema audio restoration "how we did it" presentations, David Crosthwait's work on recovering "Meet Cyd Charisse" will be presented on the West Coast for the first time, with augmentations to the his presentation made last November at the AMIA Conference in St. Louis.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It took some midnight schematic and manual pondering and late night soldering iron work to modify Ampex AVR-1 boards to handle the RCA Labs heterodyne color signal. I seem to recall David posted photos of that work and the RCA TRT-1AC manuals... but I can't find them on my laptop or when he did the mods.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">However, the results of the mods and his recovery skills are here in this frame-grab from "Meet Cyd Charisse," now nearing 51 years old.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img height="486" width="724" src="cid:3E272993-0B2B-4C54-8AF3-6B82C72AC70A"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Imagine this on a theater screen at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—possibly through a 4K projector!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The St. Louis presentation and clips caused QuadList member Jeff Martin to post after the screening:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote type="cite">Well, I was lucky enough to be at The Reel Thing today--wow. The Cyd Charisse material was just amazing, as was the story of its recovery. David, I hope you'll share that story here, if you already haven't. Suffice to say: the show fades up on Cyd in a hot-pink negligee, reclining on a chaise lounge, and gets better from there. Really, nothing else looks quite like that early color.</blockquote></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As David mentioned in a Nov. 3, 2009 QuadList post:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><div style="font-size: 12px; ">This recently found 2" original color recording that has never been seen since it's airing in December of 1959. The program will discuss the background of this RCA labs color (non-standard low band) program with some details about the machines that were involved at that time.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Archival Screening Night: There will be a presentation from what is believed to be the third oldest surviving 2" color videotape in existence, recorded November 9, 1958. This is an RCA labs (non-standard low band) color recovery.</div><div><br></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That was a Dinah Shore Chevy Show, also recorded at NBC Burbank.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img height="486" width="724" src="cid:D1C6CE37-EF5A-4EE0-97B8-7C8765659F7C"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These two shows had mechanical splices in them, as David noted in a January, 2010 post to the QuadList. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Should you encounter a spliced master from NBC Burbank, you should have no problems with the physical nature of the splice itself. I have yet to have one break apart. In the restoration and recovery of two color shows for the AMIA Conference this past fall in St. Louis, I gave presentations in technical detail. On the "Meet Cyd Charisse" program, taped in 1959 with the RCA Labs color recording system, no splices fell apart. And that included the heavily spliced dance segment in act 1, which was shown at "The Reel Thing" at AMIA. The same stable splice success story also applied to The Dinah Shore Show clip, recorded on 11/9/58 (also RCA Labs color). All spices intact. </div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">I think with all of the spliced shows we have run over the years, only a couple of them have failed. None of those breaks were network edits.</div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He was responding to a comment by Library of Congress' James Snyder regarding playback of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In." The edited masters from "Laugh-In" have hundreds of splices per show, and James was concerned about playback.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Of additional interest is the presentation in front of David's work, involving the RCA Color stabilizer used with NBC Burbank's first Quad recorders.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The two presentations close out two days and three nights that create a snapshot of the state of the art of Moving Image Preservation for film and videotape.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2010/schedule.htm">http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2010/schedule.htm</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Here's the description of what's happening beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><p style="font-size: 16px; "><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; ">A Look at the RCA Color Stabilizer for Early Monochrome Videotape Recorders<br>AKA: The Heterodyne Color Corrector</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; "><br><i><a href="http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2010/bios.html#ftc">Ralph Sargent</a>, Film Technology Company, Inc.</i></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; ">In tandem with the Cyd Charisse special restoration presentation, this paper will discuss the RCA design for a color stabilizer for early monochrome VTRs. Specifically, Ampex VRX 1000 prototype machines which NBC used at Burbank until RCA built their own recorders. This design was used for about two years before Ampex and RCA settled on an agreement on the specs for "Low Band" color.</font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px; ">___________________________________________________</font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; "><b><a name="cyd"></a>Saving Cyd Charisse - A Second Look</b><br><i><a href="http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2010/bios.html#dcw">David Crosthwait</a>, DC Video<br><a href="http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2010/bios.html#dwg">Dan Wingate</a>, Sony Pictures</i></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; ">Except for filmed programming pre-produced for television, the commercial broadcasts of the late 1940s and early 1950s only exist in the form of kinescopes - specially made film records of the television experience. But by 1956, a unique form of capture native to the video world began its ascendancy: 2" quadruplex videotape. This new, electronic recording medium was used to capture both live and pre-recorded programs, including many spectacular productions that rivaled Broadway and Hollywood for production value and talent. As these 2" tape machines developed, they evolved from verbal time code and physically edited tape towards the mature medium of television recording that dominated the last quarter of the 20th century. Unfortunately, problems including tape deterioration and equipment obsolescence have made it difficult to recover these high-quality television programs. This presentation will elucidate the process of capture and restoration of "Meet Cyd Charisse" - a Ford Startime special originally broadcast December 29, 1959 - and will touch upon the problems of the VTRs and heads, the capture and manipulation of the original non-standard color recorded signal, and the conservation of these early television images in a way that expresses their original quality and aesthetics.</font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; ">Dan Wingate will make this presentation from the one prepared and presented in St. Louis in 2009 by David Crosthwait. This will have examples from the program not previously shown.</font></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Registration for The Reel Thing is still open, and one-day registration may still be available:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2010/registration.htm">http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2010/registration.htm</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Quad Videotape Group impromptu gatherings during Reel Thing:</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">QuadList members Gary Adams, myself and perhaps others will be attending, and having impromptu QuadList/Quad Videotape Group gatherings during meal breaks.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You're invited to join us even if you're not attending The Reel Thing.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Call or text my cell (530) 301-2931 or E-mail <a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a> to find out where in the neighborhood near the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences we'll be gathering.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ted</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></span></span></font></div></span></span></font></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><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 for the <a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><u>QuadVideotapeGroup.com</u></font></a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">: </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; ">Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress</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); "><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com"><u>ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</u></a></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>