<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Scott,<div><br></div><div>There are some DVDs offered that were struck from Kinescopes. </div><div><br></div><div>There are a number of clips from Videotape on YouTube... likely from restored versions that were shown on the Disney Channel in 1988.</div><div><br></div><div><div>I'm not aware of anything from videotape legally available on DVD.</div></div><div><br></div><div>The restoration of "An Evening with Fred Astaire" from Quad to D-2 was undertaken in 1988, and resulted in an Emmy award for the participants.</div><div><img height="470" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:4050F503-1D1A-4949-93CE-1EE99654C698"></div><div style="font-size: 11px; "><i><b>The stills-from-video shown here are from a KTLA TV news video report about the restoration project.</b></i></div><div><br></div><div>KTLA engineer Don Kent handled the actual transfers and recalls:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><i>"The Astaire masters were found by a former employee of the UCLA Archive who was then working for Universal. </i></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><i>He found them in their tape library. They didn't even know they had them. They were there because Astaire had a distribution deal with them, but primarily (I think) because of his movies.</i></span></div><div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><i> </i></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><i>When Astaire died, Universal sold the "restored" shows to Disney. They hadn't even been done yet!</i></font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><i> </i></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><i>The restored D-2 is owned by Universal and is there now. The original quads are in the UCLA Film and Television Archive in Hollywood."</i></font></div></div></div></div><div><img height="427" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:06E4AEA2-0E37-4D66-9031-D46BF5D6EBF8"></div><div><br></div><div>The "heavy lifting" was undertaken by Don Kent who transferred the tapes on this KTLA AVR-1 and by QuadList member Ed Reitan, standing over the AVR-1's left-hand circuit-card drawer.</div><div><img height="427" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:EC6F343B-EE4E-4002-893B-7BCD110567D3"></div><div><br></div><div><div>Reitan researched the RCA Labs hetrodyne color system used at NBC Burbank, designed and made circuit modifications to 10 AVR-1 boards that enabled recovery of the program.</div></div><div><img height="470" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:A8CEE3E6-CE67-4110-A323-C65469BD61EC"></div><div><br></div><div>Kent recalls:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>"The AVR-1’s DOC was used. The takeoff was at the input to the AVR-1 TBC. Ampex labeled it “Demod”, as the signal hadn’t been timebase corrected at that point. That was what we used to feed the N.E.C. and then </i></span></font><span style="text-decoration: underline"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>it’</i></span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>s output went directly to the D-2 machine."</i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-size: medium; "><i>The "N.E.C." was an NEC NTC 10 Timebase corrector supplied by QuadList member Ken Zin and Merlin Engineering Works in Palo Alto. That TBC could handle the Quad's head switching.</i></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; ">The stills-from-video shown here are from a KTLA TV news video report about the restoration project.</div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; ">Look for more parts as I have time to pull quotes from e-mails Don Kent and I exchanged. Like a lot of projects, this one began with something personal to Kent.</div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; ">This series of posts will eventually become a section of the QuadVideoTape.com website.</div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; ">I'd finish the job in one pass, but I'm off to clear out what's left in my 10 x 20 storage H47 and put it into my 10 x 40 storage H-73 before the end of the day so I don't owe another month's rent!</div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; ">Some items may become available.</div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; ">Enjoy your Sunday! </div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; ">Ted</div></span></font></div></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</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></div></div></div> </div><br></div></body></html>