[QuadList] .NBC is said to have trashed around 15 years of "Tonight Show" tapes

[C. Park Seward]

Yep. That's what I have heard. I do have a Carson quad from the New  
York years that is partially erased. Seems that in storage, something  
erased a part of the tape. You can see the RF go down, the control  
track disappears and the audio get real low. And it repeats every  
revolution of the reel.

You can get a glimpse of the show and it looks great. Carson is very  
young. It's even on a reel with the RCA logo.

Maybe an AVR-1 could play it back but with the picture disappearing  
every 10 seconds, may not be worth the effort.


Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
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On Mar 1, 2009, at 4:29 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

> http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/924730.html
>
> ''A lot of Carson was lost,'' he notes. 'It's tragic, actually.  
> Carson's shows from the mid-'60s until the late '70s were all kept  
> in an NBC storage facility. And some accountant decided in the late  
> '70s: `What's all this stuff?' Someone said, these are just old  
> tapes. 'Well, get rid of them.' So they destroyed them. . . . What  
> we have of Carson is a lot of stuff that Carson himself had saved.  
> But they lost a ton.''
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