<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><head></head><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div></div><div><br></div><div><div>The same "Color Television Progress" issue notes the quick playback in Burbank of the Nov. 10, 1960 "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show," the fourth time the show had been done on location.</div><div><br></div><div>The show wrapped shooting at Edwards Air Force Base at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, with a 150 mile drive to Burbank. The tape arrived around 5:20 p.m., and was playing back to the network at 6 p.m. from Burbank for 9 p.m. Eastern time zone viewing. No indication of whether there was a backup tape or just one.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><b>Burbank Pioneered Videotape Editing Methods:</b><div><b><br></b><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>In the article about the ten new TRT-1AC machines, Nies outlined how a large portion of Burbank's tape operations involved pre-recording shows for later release. </div><div><br></div><div>Editing from a number of different reels required consistent and stable signal parameters, since recording sessions could span days, weeks or months, and involve different recorders, heads and tape stock.</div><div><br></div><div>Nies says the number of splices in an edited production might range "from 25 or 30 to as many as 200," and the material could come from a dozen different reels of tape.</div><div><br></div><div>NBC's Burbank facility became the "go to" place for production and editing when folks there developed a method of editing videotape picture and sound separately. It was first used on <a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2011-February/003966.html">"An Evening with Fred Astaire</a>, a 1958 special Fred Astaire produced and starred in that was recorded and aired on NBC.</div><div><br></div><div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>