[QuadList] Question about NBC color TZ delay prior to Quad

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Thu Oct 29 13:56:14 CDT 2009


In a message dated 10/29/2009 9:48:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jjm332 at nyu.edu writes:

> NBC showed the process to the press in September, 1956; the New York 
> Times wasn't impressed, saying "blue tends to have a purplish tint and images 
> tend to be fuzzy. Overlapping or bleeding of one color into another also was 
> frequently evident." The first telecast to use it was "The Aqua Spectacle 
> of 1957" on 9/29. LA critics griped about the poor quality of the process, 
> especially on b/w sets, during '56 and '57.
> 
> One of these days, someone's got to take a crack at transferring one of 
> the surviving lenticular kines.
> 
> Jeff Martin
> Chicago, IL
> 

Jeff,

There is a facility that can do Lenticular here. My business associates 
over at Research Video have had some done there over the years. Filmtech is the 
facility.

Regarding the Esther Williams Aqua Spectacle Sept 29, 1956, that was 
supposedly the first Burbank Lenticular color kine use: I just received an email 
about that exact subject this morning from someone who worked the show. As 
soon as he gives the OK I will forward.

David Crosthwait
DC Video, Burbank
www.dcvideo.com
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