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

[David Crosthwait]

Hello Bill,

CFI's edit rooms were small (IIRC) but they cranked out a lot of  
material at that time. Was the still store the ESS (?)? Was not CBS  
News the first to have that (if I am calling it the right product name)?

The brains behind the AVR's and ACR's etc. were extensive from what I  
can tell. Perhaps some day you could confirm (or otherwise) the story  
I heard about the AVR-1 "disappearing" then " reappearing" from  
behind the iron curtain in the 70's, only to be followed by a Russian  
product curiously similar.

Ampex certainly excelled in product engineering.

Thanks for the insights!

David





On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Bill Carpenter wrote:

>
>  Hi David and everybody,
>
> I worked very closely with CFI in those days, and I am trying to  
> remember my friend who I last saw at an outfit that was colorizing  
> movies. His name may have been Gary Thompson. I tried to get him  
> into a BIG still store system about 1984. I think he went on to  
> something with Disney.
>
> The AVR-1 was the greatest, but also a very complex machine. The  
> Charley Coleman designs were Great, but usually very complicated.
> I worked with Al Trost on three great machines as the Product  
> Manager during the Design Phase and the Product Introduction, the  
> AVR-2, the VPR-20, and the VPR-3. His designs were usually very  
> basic, and clean, and bulletproof.
>
> All of the very complex Ampex machines were also relatively small  
> volume products.
> Namly the AVR-1, ACR-25, ADR-150, AVR-3, ACR-225, and DCT 1700, all  
> never passed the 500 unit built milestone. I don't know about the  
> D2 machines?
>
> Bye for now, Bill
>
>
>
> From: David Crosthwait <david at dcvideo.com>
> To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 12:38:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [QuadList] Picture of the day (link to)---and who's in  
> it?
>
> Bill,
>
> The AVR1-1 will correct the same wide ranging errors, hence many  
> facilities recorded on VR-2000's and played back on the AVR-1 in  
> the edit bays. CFI  was one of them. In that manner, an error in  
> record guide position could be immediately caught.
>
> David Crosthwait
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> On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Bill Carpenter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> We would leave the head in the record position at all times unless  
>> I was demonstrating the capability of the TBC to remove guide  
>> related errors.
>>
>
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David Crosthwait
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