[QuadList] Don's tape from Mark Amistead Productions...

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Don,

Thanks for the update.

Do the low band and high band segments contain the same content?

Maybe you have the only videotape copy surviving? (See bold text below.)

Is there a Copyright date and owner on paper or in the credits?

Here's what I can find about the program:

A google for "Meet Marcel Marceau" reveals this on Amazon.com:

Product Description
1965-USA A one-man show in 9 parts by the most famous contemporary  
pantomimist. MARCEL MARCEAU himself does voice-over introductions of  
his various skits. A Paris street-tough finds a wallet; at the circus;  
the magician; the kite; the matador; at a society party; "The Passage  
Of Time;" Don Juan and a special tribute to Harpo Marx, Buster Keaton,  
Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin. "Bip," the famous Marceau character,  
goes through his paces - a modern tradition. TV kinescope performed  
before a live audience...video quality lacks definition in places, but  
its well worth the opportunity to "Meet Marcel Marceau." 52 minutes.

Further poking around turned up "an RKO General production in  
association with Ronald A. Wilford Associates ; produced and written  
by Wally Sherwin ; director, Bob Searles" on this site: http://udm.dalnet.lib.mi.us/

Wilford is engaged in artist management. He currently heads CAMI,  
Columbia Artists Managment, Inc., in NYC, and turns up in connection  
with Marceau's shows.  A NY Times item about Wilford reports:  "In  
1955, he staked his savings on the first American tour of the French  
mime Marcel Marceau. Mr. Marceau was a smash, and Mr. Wilford,  
building on that success, mastered the business of touring attractions."

Sherwin passed away last year, according to an LA Times obituary:
SHERWIN, Walter J. Wally Sherwin, born August 26, 1918, passed away   
peacefully on August 6, 2008 in Van Nuys, CA.  Wally was a noted TV/ 
Radio executive who served as Program Director  and then General  
Manager at KHJ Channel 9 television from 1961-1969.


The March 9, 1964 edition of Box Office reports that:





On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Don Norwood wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Langdell"
> Subject: Re: [QuadList] Don's tape from Mark Amistead Productions...
>
>
>> Hey Don...
>>
>> What did you find?
>>
>
> The tape is non-backcoated, brown oxide.  It was recorded by Mark  
> Armistead Studios and the label indicates that the first section is  
> a low-band color master recorded on RCA followed by a hi-band  
> master.  It doesn't say what the hi-band segment was recorded on and  
> there's no date on the label.  It also is labeled "Marcel Marceau".   
> Well, that's exactly what it is.
>
> For something this old, and the condition of the tape (another  
> story!), the quality is pretty good.  It was recorded in a studio  
> with a live audience. There are multiple takes and several different  
> routines.  There's at least one segment with some credits which  
> unfortunately don't include the date. The title is "Meet Marcel  
> Marceau" and it was an RKO Production recorded at Armistead Studios.
>
> The tape was shipped to someone at Ampex named Bob Duden.  I'd love  
> to know what they were doing with it.  Since it had the specific  
> info about the low-band RCA recording, I wonder if they were doing  
> some sort of comparrison.  Obviously, the HBC section is MUCH better  
> than the LBC, mainly as far as S/N is conerned.
>
> Don
>
>
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Ted Langdell
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