<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt"><br><div> </div>Hi Don & Folks,<br><br>I saw a special swinging table next to each VR-1200 in Mexico City for the 68 Olympics in the International Broadcast Center, designed specially to hold the Smith splicer.<br><br>I was working with ABS/CBN from the Philippines, who had a couple of Wrestlers in competition and were using the VR-7800's and sending tapes back home and using the slow motion with the noise bar "On-Air" to build out the program. <br><br>The folks using the quads used gloves when splicing to keep the oils from the hands from contaminating the tapes. <br><br>The "one hand use" may have been where the un-gloved hand was used to handle the splicing tape. And then the gloved hand would smooth the splice and contact the tape. <br><br>This would be sorta like the " dry hand/wet hand"
process that cooks use when coating food for deep frying.<br><br>Bye for now, Bill Carpenter<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Don Norwood <dwnorwood@embarqmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, January 26, 2011 8:28:46 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList] Videotape splicing caught on tape-- and a lot more<br></font><br> <style></style> <div>Ted:</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for finding these! I had not seen them before. Definitely a variety of classic gear there. The bay of 3 Ampex machines are actually
VR-1200's, not 2000's. Also a nice shot of a VR-3000 in the opening and closing montage sequences.</div> <div> </div> <div>What's the deal with the single gloved hand and the splicer? Isn't that somewhat pointless if the other hand is bare? I've never used a Smith splicer, so am I missing something? </div> <div> </div> <div>Also was amused by the tape reel wobbling around on what appeared to be a manual film winder. What was that about???</div> <div> </div> <div>Great stuff!</div> <div> </div> <div>Don</div> <div> </div> <div>----- Original Message ----- </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font: 10pt arial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" ymailto="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com"
target="_blank" href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted Langdell</a> </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" ymailto="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">Quad List</a> </div> <div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:01 AM</div> <div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> [QuadList] Videotape splicing caught on tape-- and a lot more</div> <div><br></div> <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><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2m8buwp_Y&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2m8buwp_Y&feature=related</a></span></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> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14px;"><span style="widows: 2;
text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: 14px Helvetica; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-spacing: 0px;" class="Apple-style-span"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: 14px Helvetica; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-spacing: 0px;" class="Apple-style-span"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: 14px Helvetica; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-spacing: 0px;" class="Apple-style-span"> <div><span>Part 2: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlg__o8xqs&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlg__o8xqs&feature=related</a></span></div>
<div><br></div> <div><span>Part 3: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJupZLyGus&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJupZLyGus&feature=related</a></span></div> <div><br></div> <div>Ted </div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="Apple-style-span"><br></span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="Apple-style-span">Ted Langdell</span></font></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="Apple-style-span"></span></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="Apple-style-span">Skype: <span style="white-space: pre;" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="Apple-style-span">e-mail:<span style="white-space: pre;" class="Apple-tab-span">
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