[QuadList] Another One

[Trevor Brown]

Had a film crew working on a high end production with a young lady who
seemed to know very little but got in the way

The Camera man sent her back to base  for some sprocket holes, she came back
with two film cans one 35mm and one 16mm as she was not told which format

The camera man never said what was in the tins

He did not know she was going out with the head of production

He never got told off just no more high end work, got assigned to film
rubbish to for quite a long time

The young lady must have explained how she saved the day to a partner

 

Must be a moral here somewhere

 

Trevor

UK Member

 

 

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Sent: 10 February 2010 16:24
To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com
Subject: [QuadList] Another One

 

Hi Guys,

 

I would be careful, if Ted is going to fine us for chatter about helical's
on the "Quad" list, what is he going to charge for "Camera" chatter??   I
would hide all those 401K's, etc. if he gets the idea.

 

While digging thru the old memory about the 1200F, I came across another
incident thich made me popular with some of the CBS folks.

 

I had informed one of the ops. mngrs. "We Needed a PAL Cleaning Tape For The
PAL Digibetas". I didn't want to use the NTSC Cleaning Tape on the PAL
machines, I was affraid it might damage the heads.

 

I don't know if she bit or not, but she spent quite some time in her office
on the phone and out of our (Maint) hair. I was hoping she would as I was
going to extend it by telling her the same about the D-2's.

 

For you Navy guys,  I let one slip.  One day a fellow stuck his head in my
office and asked if I needed anything from "Supply", that he was going
there.  Just as a quick response I said "Yes, Would He Mind Picking Up some
Sound Powered Phone Batteries".  (This joke goes back to John Paul Jones
days). He must not have gotten enough sleep the night before because  he
told the Chief that "Keller Needs Some Sound Powered Phone Batteries" and
the Chief knew just what to do, had him running all over for an hour or so.

 

What made it great is that he was an officer, slightly junior to me, a ham
and maint background. I see him from time to time at our reunions and kid
him about it and he just looks at me and tells me he doesn't remember the
incident at all, and I remind him that "Denial is not a River in Egypt", and
I buy him a beer.

 

There are a million of these out there, wonder if anyone else (Besides Don
at WTVJ) has had the opportunity to pull any??

 

My son who was an M.P. (Sgt), while in K-Town had some guy running all over
trying to get him a box of "Grid Squares", among other things.  I don't know
where he gets these ideas.

 

Some of my favorites were "D.F.Bearing Grease" or "Classified Chad" from the
TTY tape perfs just to name a couple.

 

DE,

 

George Keller

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