<html><body 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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">In 1959, Ampex began publishing a newsletter specifically about Videotape and the company's Videotape products. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><img height="256" width="204" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:45E7AF52-0354-471F-80BF-D8E9B19F436D"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Here's the second page of Volume 1 Number 3, published in December, 1959, with type turned into editable text by OCR. It includes the conclusion of "Humble Oil Scores Big With Football Tapes from Page 1.</span></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><img alt="AHL-V1-3-Nov-1959-P1-Masthead.jpg" height="127" width="504" src="cid:7780F157-0B52-461E-A54A-C7E02FCE658D"></div><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4A7FCA" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 23px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Page 2</b></span></font></span></font></p></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: medium;"><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 23.0px Helvetica; color: #4a7fca"><b>Let’s Talk About...</b></p>
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<td valign="top" style="width: 553.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px"><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">(Editor’s Note) <b>HEAD LINES</b> welcomes Ross Snyder as a regular contributor. </p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">He will discuss a variety of technical topics concerned with television tape recording. Snyder’s experience fully qualifies him as an authority. </p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Before joining Ampex -in 1952-as an engineer, he was an announcer-producer for WOR, New York, and an audio engineer and newscaster for KJBS, San Francisco. Now manager of video products, Ampex Professional Products Company, Snyder supervises video product planning, systems engineering, industrial design and service engineering. </p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">He is a member of the national board and a fellow of the Audio Engineering Society. He holds membership in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the British Television Society and the Acoustical Society of America.</p>
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</table><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>60 SPLICES IN FOOTBALL TAPES</b><span style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b> </b>(continued)</span></p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">series, has put together a team that moves with amazing speed and know-how. Most of the games are played on Saturday nights. The edited versions, complete with commentary by sportscaster Kern Tips and commercials, go-on the air at 5:30 p.m. the following day.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Briefly, here is the productionroutine. Depending on the origination point, the entire game is fed to an Ampex recorder in either KRLD, KPRC or WOAI.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Lyerly watches the live -feed and makes notes of the action. As soon as the game is over, he and his tape editor go to work reducing the approximately 2% hours of recording to 25 minutes of highlights. Open and close commercials (filmed) are superimposed on the tape. Then Tips views the completed tape and prepares his commentary. Tips goes on camera in the studio, and his lead-in is taped. Crowd noise, which has been held on a separate audio tape, is then mixed with Tips’ commentary and dubbed onto the edited tape. A dub of the completed master is made for back-up. And the show is ready.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">From start of the game until completion of the dub of the edited master tape, around 10 hours of recorder operating time is logged for the complete job.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">“These edited tapes are wonderful technical successes,” agency spokesmen said.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Until last year, Humble Oil used film for its football shows.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">“Tape is a tremendous improvement,” the agency declared. “Not only is the picture quality far better.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">But it would be impossible to put the show on the air before Monday with film. Tape gives us at least 24 hours’ advantage.”</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #4a7fca"><b>INTERCHANGEABILITY</b><span style="color: #000000"><b> OF TAPES</b></span></p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">We’re impressed constantly with the fact that interchangeability is not a black-and-white affair. Interchangeability is a matter of degree. Monochrome tapes have been interchanged among Ampex’s VIDEOTAPE television recorders for years - and very satisfactorily whenever the operating engineer had a few minutes in which to make some playback readjustments. This has also been true of color tapes made on Ampex color-converted VR-1000 series recorders. Color tapes, recorded at the 1958 American Medical Association Convention in San Francisco, were played interchangeably on two different color recorders, before a public audience, on July 22, 1958. The most dramatic interchange of color tapes was the now-famous Nixon-Khrushchev debate, recorded on one Ampex color recorder at the American National Exhibition in Moscow and dubbed and played back in color by NBC, New York, on a different machine with a different recording head.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Interchangeability of black-and-white recordings among Ampex VR-1000 series recorders is a longproved reality. Hundreds of commercials, and dozens of syndicated television programs, are exchanged every week.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">But Ampex feels that the present degree of interchangeability is not enough. The television industry demands, and rightly so, that recorded television tapes ultimately become replayable on any television recorder, without readjustments of any kind, and that tapes made anywhere be interspliceable. We feel that television tape, While now interchangeable, must become as interspliceable as photographic motion picture film.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">The attainment of universal interspliceability requires a high degree of business responsibility on the part of the recorder manufacturers. All must continue to improve machinery and to make it easier to use.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">But the success or failure of the manufacturer’s efforts will lie ultimately with the operating engineers in the television industry. Monochrome tapes made on different Ampex recorders can be interspliced, with care in operation.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">The care which is required is care which must be exercised during the recording process. Once the tape is recorded, there’s nothing we can do to change the mechanical and electrical settings which will be required for satisfactory playback of the tape. Only by universal observation of a single set of sensible operating standards, during every recording session, can universal interspliceability be achieved.</p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Ross Snyder Video Products Manager </p><p style="margin: 7.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><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; "><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><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; ">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></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>