<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>The same YouTube poster also posted the first act—13:09—of the Jan. 21, 1959 Kraft Music Hall with Berle, in color.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/vmanfactor5#p/">http://www.youtube.com/user/vmanfactor5#p/</a>u/6/JdJXvSm3qRk</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at the playback, I'm wondering </div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Whether this is RCA Labs color, RCA color or Low Band Color</li><li>The breakup at various points is caused by a splice, as it seems to happen at specific types of transitions, like into or out of breaks. Notes or comments indicated the announcer was out of NYC, but the show was shot in Burbank. </li></ul><div><br></div><div>In thinking about how the show might have been produced, I suppose the VO could have been sent down the line to Burbank, but it "feels" more like a live-switch to live audio, possibly edited into the Burbank master or the NYC recording of a Burbank feed.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at other material uploaded by the same poster, I was pleased to see a KMH from my fourth birthday that aired a week earlier than the color show linked above.</div><div><br></div><div><div>The Betty White commercials clip was transferred at Research Video in Los Angeles... possibly on a VR-2000?</div><div><br></div><div>Opinions about whether an AVR-1 would have handled the playback of either with fewer glitches?</div></div><div><br></div><div>Sure was a simpler—and more leisurely-paced style. You actually got to LOOK at people before they cut to something else.</div><div><br></div><div>Gimme three cameras, a limbo set a singer and a ballad to play with :)</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div><div>On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Jeff Martin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Just turned up on YouTube:<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBopQqi8J_M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBopQqi8J_M</a><br><br>Nifty! But mysterious--Berle was on The Kraft Music Hall then. Why commercials for a different product? Rotating sponsor? Rerun spots?<br><br>Anyone know anything about this (other than the fact that it looks to be a terrific transfer?)<br><br>Jeff Martin<br>Independent Media Arts Preservation<br>_______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br>Send QuadList list posts to QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br>http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com<br></div></blockquote></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; "><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; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">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></div> </div><br></body></html>