<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Perhaps Al knows something about the Chroma III ???</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.newhampshirevideo.dynip.com:8080/tm/tm_chromaiii.pdf">http://www.newhampshirevideo.dynip.com:8080/tm/tm_chromaiii.pdf</a><div><a href="http://www.newhampshirevideo.dynip.com:8080/tm/tm_chromaiii.pdf"></a><br><div><div>On Dec 9, 2010, at 11:59 PM, <a href="mailto:COURYHOUSE@aol.com">COURYHOUSE@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>Al! continue on.... any other phx memories?? </div>
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<div>ok telemation sold ivc cameras and did not make them
themselves??</div>
<div><font size="2" ptsize="10">Thanks,<br><br>Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC
<br><br>See the Museum's Web Site at <a href="http://www.smecc.org/">www.smecc.org</a><br>
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<div>In a message dated 12/9/2010 5:36:53 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:altv@att.net">altv@att.net</a> writes:</div>
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<div><br>I was the 13th employee hired at Telemation Productions.
The Production arm started as an industrial video company/equipment demo
studio with a couple of Ampex 7800's and some IVC 1"'s. We also
had IVC cameras (guess what company Telemation distributed)My boss,
Scott Kane, talked the company into buying 2 Ampex 1200 and that started
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<div>At the time, most commercial work was done at WGN and a few other
stations. They tended to do 30 second commercials in 30 seconds
with 3 cameras. Telemation (along with another company, Editel)
did single camera shoots with a lot of editing. We quickly
overtook WGN in the videotape production business. I started in
the evening shift making 2" dubs and adding local tags to commercials...
both of which became extremely profitable.</div>
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<div>When we moved from a 15 hz control track and a magic marker to an
RA 4000 we thought we were in the big time. By the time I moved to
LA in '79 they had added the Seattle and Denver offices, 5 1200's,
a VPR 1 and some PC 70's from Western Video.</div>
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<div>My recollection is that the Phoenix office was converted from a
film facility. They ended up getting a windfall there when the
city decided to expand the street in front. The city fathers
visited the office to discuss the buyout of the property. They
were shocked when they realized the expanded lane will run right through
the equipment room, instead of some half-empty warehouse. The
company got a lot of money and a new addition on the side street.</div>
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<div>Sorry for the long-winded answer. I learned a lot about
Capstan and Drum servos there.</div>
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