<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Rewind in time and play some memories about mechanics, machines and men (women too) with this trio of clips from a 1976 3/4" videocassette—"Videotape: Images with Impact"—© Thomas M. Edinger that was found in a student television station... </div><div><br></div><div>The first clip has a working VR-1000 at 3:58 in</div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2m8buwp_Y&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2m8buwp_Y&feature=related</a></div><div><br></div><div>A minute later, a pair of VR-1000s are seen as a white-gloved editor uses a Smith splicer and microscope to cut, splice and test an edit.</div><div><br></div><div>The tape outlines how NBC ESG (Edit Sync Guide) film-based system worked. It was used with great success on many shows for more than a decade, even when electronic editing came in, including the heavily edited "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In." Black and white film workprint from Laugh In are seen, and Bob Hope jokes about the editor in the basement...</div><div><br></div><div>You'll see VR-2000's, AVR-2's and a variety of 1970's editing gear as the video explains the history of television editing.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><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-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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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-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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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-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>Part 2: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlg__o8xqs&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlg__o8xqs&feature=related</a></div><div><br></div><div>Part 3: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJupZLyGus&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJupZLyGus&feature=related</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ted </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></div> </div><br></body></html>