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

[Ted Langdell]

I'm hoping that Ed Reitan and/or David Crosthwait will pop in with the  
technical specifications involving the various color formats that were  
in use at NBC Burbank in the spring of 1958.

In a post this summer, David reported that the 1958, the WRC-TV  
dedication was "zone delay recorded at NBC Burbank in low band color  
with RCA 8:1 pre-emphasis on an RCA TRT-1. The low band color standard  
was not quite agreed upon at that time, hence there were various modes  
of pre-emphasis being experimented with."

The facility had one RCA Color Video Tape Recorder and eight Ampex  
black-and-white machines that could record color using with RCA Labs  
hetrodyne electronics.

Ed says he identified "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.

As I posted earlier, Ed recommends using the term "RCA Broadcast  
Color" for the format produced by the RCA TRT-1AC, which he reports  
was used by NBC at Burbank starting in April, 1958.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
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