[QuadList] was Helical, Quads, now Marconi cameras

[Dennis Degan]

>         On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:47 AM, Guy Spiller wrote:
>
> > The original Sesame Street programs were done with MkVIIs at Reeves 
> Teletape
>
>         I contradicted:
>
>     I'm sorry but that's not true.  I worked at R/T and they never had 
> Marconi color cameras.  R/T had RCA cameras at the Sesame Street 
> studio on 81st Street in New York.  When I worked there, they were 
> using TK-44b's which were installed new in 1970.
>     I've been told by other R/T techs at the time that Sesame Street's 
> first season (1969) was shot at WNEW-TV.  Perhaps this was where the 
> Marconi cameras were located.
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		On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Guy Spiller wrote:

 > I bought two Marconi MkVIIs from Reeves...or at least that's what I 
remember.  Fuzzy memories of picking them up from some warehouse in NJ 
around 1974, and was told they had been used on David Frost and I knew 
that Reeves had been doing Sesame Street and just assumed they had done 
them from the beginning.  Do you know where David Frost was produced?
 > Sounds like it wasn't Reeves that they originally came from...now I'm 
really wondering where they did come from!

		I say:

	I think David Frost was produced at WNET's 55th Street studio.  But 
I'm not sure of this.  It's possible that Frost's show came from 
WNEW-TV as well as SS's first season.  If so, perhaps that's where the 
Marconi cameras came from.
	I've been unable to confirm which studio "The David Frost Show" 
originated from.

			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
	  					NBC Today Show, New York