[QuadList] can anyone add info on telemation productions

[Scott Thomas]

Perhaps Al knows something about the Chroma III ???

http://www.newhampshirevideo.dynip.com:8080/tm/tm_chromaiii.pdf

On Dec 9, 2010, at 11:59 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

> Al! continue on.... any other phx memories??
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> ok  telemation sold ivc cameras and did not make them themselves??
> Thanks,
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> Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC 
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> See the Museum's Web Site at www.smecc.org
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> In a message dated 12/9/2010 5:36:53 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, altv at att.net writes:
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> I was the 13th employee hired at Telemation Productions.  The Production arm started as an industrial video company/equipment demo studio with a couple of Ampex 7800's and some IVC 1"'s.  We also had IVC cameras (guess what company Telemation distributed)My boss, Scott Kane, talked the company into buying 2 Ampex 1200 and that started the expansion.
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> At the time, most commercial work was done at WGN and a few other stations.  They tended to do 30 second commercials in 30 seconds with 3 cameras.  Telemation (along with another company, Editel) did single camera shoots with a lot of editing.  We quickly overtook WGN in the videotape production business.  I started in the evening shift making 2" dubs and adding local tags to commercials... both of which became extremely profitable.
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> When we moved from a 15 hz control track and a magic marker to an RA 4000 we thought we were in the big time.  By the time I moved to LA in '79 they had added the Seattle and Denver offices, 5 1200's, a VPR 1 and some PC 70's from Western Video.
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> My recollection is that the Phoenix office was converted from a film facility.  They ended up getting a windfall there when the city decided to expand the street in front.  The city fathers visited the office to discuss the buyout of the property.  They were shocked when they realized the expanded lane will run right through the equipment room, instead of some half-empty warehouse.  The company got a lot of money and a new addition on the side street.
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> Sorry for the long-winded answer.  I learned a lot about Capstan and Drum servos there.
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> Al Killion
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