<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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; ">Our series of pages from the 1959 Ampex Head Lines draws to a close with this post. </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><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Note that the previous e-mail with Page 7 in the subject line and Page Six listed in the text should have had Page 7 everywhere.</span></blockquote><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;">If anyone has other editions of Ampex Head Lines, we'd appreciate high quality scans to OCR text and pull photos from. Or send us the originals to scan and send back to you, or then on to 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; 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="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><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 8</b></span></font></span></font></p><div><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><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-P8-SouthernTVEngineersInMCR-VR-1000.jpg" id="c6c6d6ed-f936-437f-9d04-80a5cbb49f1a" height="347" width="500" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:31234322-36C6-4680-803C-91BC0EEACA01"></div><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #508fd6"><i>Two video engineers in the master control room of Southern TV, Ltd., Southhampton, England, demonstrate the ease of Ampex VTR operation. By elevating units on a low platform, all operating controls can be reached easily and operated from a sitting position.</i></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>SERVICE AROUND THE CLOCK</b> </p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Complete, cost-free service for the VR-1000 owner begins at the moment of purchase. It includes factory training of operating personnel, installation service and a one-year service supervision policy. It continues through every aspect of operation.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">When the recorder arrives, an Ampex field engineer (a specialist in VIDEOTAPE television recording)</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">assists in the installation and check-out of the equipment. A short time after installation, the engineer makes another call-to answer all questions, study operating procedures and provide additional training for station personnel.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">From six nationwide field offices (including the staff at Redwood City serving the Pacific Northwest), Ampex furnishes service supervision for one year en-</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">tirely free of cost to the customer. At any time of the day or night, parts - and an engineer - are available from these offices to meet a sudden emergency.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">In service, as in manufacture, Ampex is clearly out front - the world over!</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>TEACHERS MEET PRESS VIA TAPE</b></p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">A 13-week series of press interview programs produced by California Teachers Association is being recorded on Ampex machines in the studios of KRON-TV, San Francisco, and distributed to stations throughout the state.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">The series opener of “Why, Teacher?” went on the air October 11. Stations not yet equipped with VTRs are receiving 16 mm kinescopes of the programs. Two news representatives interview two educators on each 30-minute show. The teachers answer searching questions about educational issues.</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>TV Advertisers Crowd Aboard VTR Bandwagon</b></p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">In a time span of less than two years, Ampex’s VIDEOTAPE recorder has achieved a remarkable record: over 500 units have been delivered to broadcasters all over the world... the first tape network is being readied... mobility of TV recording has been achieved... tape syndication is a reality with between 75 and 100 regular television features now being produced and played on Ampex recorders.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Hailed as a remarkable production tool for the television medium, advertisers were quick to jump on the Ampex bandwagon. Stations are reporting big increases in their local business as a result of bringing in new sponsors through the use of Ampex recorders for production. For a while, most of the taped commercial business will be found in the local, retail level as is witnessed by local users such as Macy’s California, Barker Bros. (Los Angeles), Sears-Roebuck, and Safeway Markets. However, the national advertiser is beginning to use taped commercials for country-wide spot presentations.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">As a part of its Halloween promotion, Pillsbury purchased time on 28 stations and two network shows for a taped Halloween cake - mix spot. The firm’s agency shipped 45 tape copies of the commercials to stations all over the United States. Production and duplication were done at NTA-Telestudios in New York on Ampex recorders.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">In a recent survey reported in TELEVISION DIGEST, 12 producers of commercials in New York show a 1959 gross total of more than $5 million in tape business. Biggest sponsors to be found as tape clients in 1959 include ,such TV “headliners” as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Nabisco, Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods, S. C. Johnson & Son, Toni, Best Foods, Warner-Lambert, Pontiac, Texaco, Du Pont and U. S. Steel.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Although the networks are still responsible for much of the production of taped commercials, New York independent producers predict that nearly 50% of their gross business in 1961 will consist of tape work.</p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Quite a growth rate from 1957! </p><p style="margin: 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><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-P8-AHL-Masthead.jpg" id="ee87ae52-13a6-4494-a07c-65cd605e5e1e" height="255" width="500" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:E1427966-06A6-45A4-B349-704D98D229B3"></div><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">PRINTED IN U.S.A.</p><div><br></div></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>