[QuadList] Picture of the day (link to)---and who's in it?

[David C. Crosthwait]

I worked on a project with Bob Shiff of Tele-image when it was in  
Carrolton, using their remote truck in downtown Dallas. This was about  
1975 or so. Bob passed away in the 80's I believe.

Dennis Morton (ex MCI?) went to 525 Post after I arrived here in Los  
Angeles in the 70's. 525 is gone, and I don't know where he went.

David
www.dcvideo.com



Quoting Scott Thomas <scottgfx at mac.com>:

> Great to hear from you,
>
> So you worked at The Post Group in Orlando? I worked at WKMG (nee   
> WCPX) for a year and was involved in a redesign of the station. I   
> worked with a Century III ex-patriot named Curtis Sponsler. Know him?
>
> I was in Blue Cactus a couple of times. I'm pretty sure the two   
> machines were AVR-2's. They were in a storage area in the back and   
> not in the equipment area. I'll see if I kept a copy of the auction   
> list.
>
> Can't find the list. They were much smaller than the VR-1200's and   
> RCA TR-70's I had been around.
>
> In Googling for the info, I found a post I made in 2009 on the   
> Quadlist in response to Park. He said that he had an edit session in  
>  Dallas on AVR-2's. Don't know where though.
>
> On Dec 5, 2010, at 5:17 AM, Rob Mobley wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott,
>> Back in 1985 I worked for Tele-Image & helped them open their   
>> facility there at Las Colinas. They had previously had an office in  
>>  Carrollton for some years. At the time, the new place was quite a   
>> facility, designed by one of my all time favorite engineers, Dennis  
>>  Morton. They bought two second hand AVR-3's for spot duplication;   
>> one from the Osmond Production Company in Utah & the other from the  
>>  Southern Baptist Convention, as I recall. I spooled off thousands   
>> of dubs from those machines. I think they may be the quads you are   
>> referring to. I took a gig with Disney in 1988 & left the Dallas   
>> area for central Florida. Subsequent mergers happened with   
>> Tele-Image in the coming months & years - I believe they merged   
>> with Dallas Post & became Pyramid Teleproductions & Blue Cactus   
>> came some time later. I still had a lot of friends there that   
>> endured some of those changes. I couldn't tell you where the   
>> AVR-3's ended up, but I still communicate with some of my friends   
>> from there. I will ping them & find out what they know.
>> Best Regards,
>> Rob Mobley
>>
>> Winter Garden, FL
>> robmob at cfl.rr.com
>>
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