[QuadList] NBC Archive film transfers--What telecine's used

[Dennis Degan]

		On Jan 4, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:

 > If the archive material's on film, what telecine is used for transfer 
in NJ?  Any idea?

		I reply:

	I can't answer definitively as I wasn't working for NBC at the time.  
I know there were a bunch of TK-27s and TK-28s at 30 Rock when I first 
worked for NBC in 1978.  Those TK-27's and -28's may have been used to 
mass-transfer material from news film to tape back in the '80's when 
the migration from film to tape would have most likely taken place.  It 
could have been done about the time of the MII machines since a lot of 
that material is on MII, even now.  But I see the telltale tape wrap of 
Beta SP (as tapes were loaded into the machines) on the microwave feed 
from the New Jersey Archive all the time, so I'm guessing that most if 
not all of it is now on Beta SP.

			Dennis Degan, Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
	  				NBC Today Show, New York