<html><head></head><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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Another in our continuing series. If anyone has other editions of Ampex Head Lines, we'd appreciate high quality scans to OCR text and pull photos from, or the originals to scan and send back to you, or the repository of your choice.</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;">Ted</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; 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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><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></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; "><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="200" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="1009c30e-8d03-447a-8d5a-63a0934378ec" 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 sixth page of Volume 1 Number 3, published in December, 1959, with type turned into editable text by OCR. </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="82" width="320" id="59abef53-76a5-4cfe-a6f8-afa7f5328676" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" 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 6</b></span></font></span></font></p><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div>
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<td valign="middle" style="width: 496.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(80, 143, 214); "><i>Reginald H. Hammans, director of engineering for Granada TV, looks over four of the five Ampex recorders in the firm’s video control room at Manchester, England. The English broadcaster also uses two other VR-1000s in mobile units for remote productions.</i></div>
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</table><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><b></b><br></div><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>DIAMOND SPARKLES IN </b><span style="color: #508fd6"><b>COLOR</b></span></p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Using its Ampex color VTR, WLW-T (Cincinnati) recently demonstrated to RCA officials and press representatives a new system for color telecasts of night baseball and basketball.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">At this demonstration, the group witnessed a night color Ampex tape recording of Crosley Field, home of the Cincinnati Reds. Made under normal field lighting, the tape, according to press reports, revealed true colors with sharp and clear definition.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Robert E. Dunville, president of the Crosley Broadcasting Corp., states that successful color telecasting with normal night lighting is made possible by the development of three tubes so sensitive they make special lenses used in the original experiment more than adequate to pick up activity under normal night lighting for baseball. The specifications for these tubes were engineered by Howard Lepple, WLW-T’s chief engineer, and manufactured by General Electric.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>AAAA LISTS TAPE DEFINITIONS</b> </p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">The American Association of Advertising Agencies’ subcommittee on TV tape development has suggested the following definitions:</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span style="color: #508fd6"><b>Original </b></span>— The first tape recording of a television signal.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Note: There may be several originals, of course, if several machines are used to record from the television signal.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span style="color: #508fd6"><b>Master </b></span>—The first tape complete in all its production elements.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Note: An “original” recording can also be a “master” if. it is complete in all its elements, such as a production recorded in continuity.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">The term “protection master” may be used to identify a master which has been designated for protection purposes.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span style="color: #508fd6"><b>Copy</b></span><b> </b>— Any recording made solely from a TV tape signal, whether original, master or copy.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Note: A “copying master” is a master tape designated for use in making copies.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span style="color: #508fd6"><b>Leader</b></span> — That portion of a tape recording immediately preceding the program or commercial content.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span style="color: #508fd6"><b>Run-Out</b></span> —That portion of a tape recording immediately following the program or commercial content.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 36.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica"><b>NAVY STEAMS INTO KFMB FOR DEFENSE MANEUVERS</b></p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Public service programming took on “spectacular” lines when KFMB-TV, San Diego, taped its own hour-long documentary on national security. “TARGET, USA” is the story of the nation’s defense against the threat of missile attack from enemy submarines.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">The station sent a special news crew more than 16,000 miles to shoot 10,000 feet of film on actual submarine detection maneuvers. At the same time, on the home front, the KFMB-TV production department reconstructed actual briefing areas and interiors of naval vessels on a studio sound stage.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">More than five tons of Navy sonar, radar and communications equipment was moved to the studios, along with ready room furniture from the carrier USS BENNINGTON, to make the sets as realistic as possible.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">According to set designer Ray Trail, the Navy provided everything that could be desired for realism.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">“We stopped just short of flooding the studio with eight feet of water,” he quipped.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">In the mocked-up studio, navy personnel re-enacted their actual duty assignments while the station’s VTR crew recorded ive hours of tape.</p>
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</table><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">In final production, the massive film footage and tape recordings were reviewed and edited down to the final hour-long version. The completed production was then transferred to tape.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Following its airing on KFMB, the tape of “TARGET, USA” was released to Channel 8’s sister stations in the Transcontinental Group.</p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></font></div></b></p></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="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 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>