[QuadList] Gene Kelley Show color recording system--which was used?

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Perhaps the tape was an early RCA heterodyne/non-phased color 
recording.  I  think this was the color system used by the TRT-1 series 
color recorders.
I've never actually one of these recordings to play, even back in the 
day, but most of the earlier color RCA quad machines had that 
"non-phased color" mode as a playback option.  I don't remember that 
Ampex ever addressed this for playback, so perhaps that's why the custom 
modules had to be made for the AVR-1.
Guy
www.GuySpiller.com




Ted Langdell wrote:
> Hi, David...
>
>> On Dec 27, 2008, at 2:10 PM, dcfwtx at aol.com <mailto:dcfwtx at aol.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I transferred "The Gene Kelly Show" several years ago for a now 
>>> deceased client to Digtial Betacam. RCA non-standard 2" low band 
>>> color recording on our modified AVR-1 using proprietary modules. One 
>>> hour show. Burbank recording.
>>>
>>> David Crosthwait
>>> DC Video
>>> www.dcvideo.com <http://www.dcvideo.com>
>
>
> In 1988, KTLA Engineer Don Kent and Engineer/Historian Ed Reitan 
> were involved in the transfer of the 1958 Astaire special and other 
> early Quad color tapes.
>
> Don did the playback off an AVR-1 that he got KTLA  to donate to 
> UCLA's film and television archive. 
>
> Ed modified ten boards that replaced stock ones on this AVR-1, the 
> last working Quad at KTLA.  It is now part of the CBS Television City 
> Quad array, where CBS maintains its health.
>
> Ed e-mailed me when we first put Quadvideotapegroup.com live: 
>
> "As clarification, I use the terminology "RCA Labs Color" for the 
> format of the original Eisenhower, Astaire, and other NBC color tapes 
> used on the modified Ampex machines at Burbank from early 1958 through 
> at least April 1959.
>
> I suggest the term "RCA Broadcast Color" for the format of the tapes 
> produced by the RCA TRT-1AC, the first color recorder produced by RCA 
> Broadcast of Camden, N.J., and also used by NBC at Burbank starting in 
> April, 1958.  
>
> These are distinguished from tapes made to the later “Low Band Color“ 
> standard later promulgated by SMPTE."
>
> *David: * Do you remember which system and machine(s) were used on the 
> Kelly special?
>
> Can you tell us more about the tape itself?  Was it a first generation 
> tape?  Any splices? etc.  Very hard to recover?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ted
>
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