<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>On Nov 8, 2012, at 3:41 AM, I wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Yes, Reeves had a well-equipped machine shop on the first floor at 304 East 44th Street where two German craftsmen made all kinds of special equipment and parts. Reeves' world-renowned Sound Shop audio facility in the same building was full of these special do-dads. The facility, opened in 1947 as Reeves Sound Studios, was where the audio for all Cinerama movies were mixed. When I worked at Reeves in the 1980's, the Sound Shop was where literally hundreds of movies and TV shows were mixed. Our video maintenance shop was located directly behind the largest mix room, Studio C, where most of the big stuff was done.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Hazard Reeves was the inventor of mag-sound sprocketed film for movie post-production. Beginning in 1948, mag-film effectively made optical post-production obsolete. Reeves' double-system sprocketed magnetic film became the standard for film audio post-production, lasting until the current era of digital sound mixing.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><<a href="http://www.in70mm.com/cinerama/archive/sound/index.htm">http://www.in70mm.com/cinerama/archive/sound/index.htm</a>></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><<a href="http://www.cineramaadventure.com/reeves.htm">http://www.cineramaadventure.com/reeves.htm</a>></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Nov 8, 2012, at 9:49 AM, David Crosthwait wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> Dennis,</div><div>> Thanks for the Hazard Reeves background. The Wiki says: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">Following the war, in 1946, Reeves founded the Reeves Soundcraft Corporation and directed the operation of a number of companies manufacturing a variety of products including recording tape and film, record discs, wire cable, television tubes and cameras and precision recording equipment. Reeves introduced magnetic recording to the film industry in 1948." Looks like they were busy into all sorts of enterprises! Like CBS's Ampex 2" VTR's, might I gather that it was not too much time when the HS 100 came through the door that it went to the machine shop for custom retrofitting?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I now reply:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Yes, Reeves was involved in many audio-related businesses, most of them started long before I came on the scene there. In fact, it appears that he got out of the equipment and supply businesses as late as the 1970's. One of those companies, Audio Devices (which made acetate recording discs), was sold to EMI-Capitol Records.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I heard that the HS-100 (which was actually originally an HS-200), was modified after a few years of use. From what I heard from 'old-timers' when I worked at Reeves in the 1980's, techs would complain that the heads required too much attention (imagine that!) and requested that more solid adjustment blocks be made in order to make the head adjustments more rugged. The adjustment blocks were already part of the machine when I worked at Reeves. This was a machine that was used in the New York post facility, in studios, and on production remotes on the Reeves/Teletape remote truck.</div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><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-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> NBC Today Show, New York</div><br></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>