[QuadList] The Second VR-1200B comes to life

[C. Park Seward]

Ted,

Here is the label of the Japanese interview with Davis. I think you  
are exactly right. Translation???

They talk a lot about apples. Seems that Davis wanted the area to sell  
some to the Japanese. Yes, it was recorded in Japan around the mid 70s.

I also have a tape of a film about Japan. Just many different scenes  
of Japanese live with music.

The Burbank quad tape has a partially erased Tonight Show on it with  
Carson. Not a full show but segments. Seems that in storage the tapes  
were next to some magnetic field since the RF, audio and control  
tracks disappear at the same time per each reel revolution. Or someone  
did a poor job trying to bulk erase the tape.I have several that have  
the same problem.

I recorded the Quad output to miniDV and then brought it into iMovie.  
Output was H.264. That was uploaded to YouTube and they changed it  
into Flash.

The Sony tape had the interview on it. The tape had no label.

The machines probably came from KIMA, Yakima. At least that is what is  
written on the manuals.

Yes, that is certainly Davis. "Earlier on in Hugh's career, he started  
out as an Advertising Sales Executive and on-air personality for KIMA- 
TV."
So there is the KIMA connection.

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
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On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> Congratulations, Park,
>
> On Jun 2, 2009, at 9:49 AM, C. Park Seward wrote:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJsx80gRHI
>
>
> Glad to know you've been able to trace down the source of the  
> banding. The clip you sent that was H264? compressed  and "native"  
> frame size looked very clean otherwise.  I'm guessing first  
> generation?
>
> I'm curious to know what was on the label of this particular  
> videotape? (Or was it this Sony 970 with no label?)
>
> <DSC01292.jpg>
>
>
> Do you know the nature of the broadcast and the record-date and  
> location?
>
> Yakima counts Itayanagi, Japan as a sister city, which may have some  
> connection to the clip. Or not.
>
> A bit of background:  This tape and Quad machines were from KNDO,  
> Yakima, WA.
>
> KNDO is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. On the clip, I  
> think the caucasian gent in the middle of the Japanese folks is Hugh  
> Davis, founder of the station, seen in the lower right photo on this  
> page http://www.kndu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10289532
>
> Hugh's son Bob has been involved with the station since birth, and  
> talks about his dad and and TD'ing the late newscast in the 60's...  
> in a way that might have been very typical for a station in this  
> small of a market. You'll chuckle and nod your head.  Clips here: http://www.kndu.com/Global/category.asp?C=167409
>
> Park: You'd sent a bunch of photos of tapes that came with the  
> VR-1200's, and some of these tapes look like they may have been not  
> just of Japanese manufacture—Sony, Fuji, etc.—but may have been  
> recorded in Japan, as the Sony shipper with Japanese writing on the  
> side indicates.
>
> <DSC01294.jpg>
>
>
> The Toshiba/Fuji reel is interesting, because Toshiba was at one  
> time Ampex's Japanese partner in a company making Quads for the  
> Japanese market.  Has me thinking that perhaps it was recorded on a  
> Toshiba-made machine.
> <DSC01296.jpg>
>
> Now if we could find someone in Japan who knows the background of  
> Japanese Quad manufacture and deployment...
>
> David C. probably has seen quite a few that look like this:
> <DSC01299.jpg>
>
> Have fun as the reels turn.
>
> Ted
>
>
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