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

[Alan Rosenfeld]

There are still services available to transfer old film in NJ.  I believe
Ascent Media, aka the old Audio plus Video, still has some Ranks running
archive.  As far as I know the nets do not have telecine setups running
anywhere.

Alan Rosenfeld

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Dennis Degan <DennyD1 at verizon.net> wrote:

>
>                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
>
>
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