[QuadList] frost nixon film

Mon Jun 14 18:22:43 CDT 2010

Howdy Quad List

There was colour Post Facilities in Sydney Australia late 1970.

I was a 'Tape Editor', 'Techo', General 'Dogs Body' at Video Tape
Corporation at Eastern Valley Way Roseville Sydney from that time for a
number of years.

We had 2 Quad VTRs [1200's] and one of the first HS100's in Australia. +
Richmond Hill vision mixers.

We did our A/B roll 'live' mixing for Commercials with one 1200 as the
'A' roll and the HS100 as the 'B' roll.

Recording on the second Quad 1200.

If it was a 60sec spot the HS100 ran in field mode......Quality ...did
we care ...it was in colour

Editing was by editec and carbon pencil marks on the 2" tape to manually
'back cue' them.

A common 'roll button' ran the whole shebang for the 'edit'. 

We could mostly be bang on the frame for repeat takes or pick ups if
necessary.

Studio cameras were  4 Vidicon Marconi's....one for luminance and 3 for
RGB. The Manual registration and line-up panel was a masterpiece of
tweekable knobs.

I still have [a copy] of an old xmas goof reel from that time. It is
remarkably sophisticated and in colour + some nice head banding for
authenticity

Fun Times

Cheers

Ian Richardson

Sydney 

OZ

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[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Don
Norwood
Sent: Friday, 11 June 2010 11:51 PM
To: Quad List
Subject: Re: [QuadList] frost nixon film

James & Ted:

There were certainly color facilities in Australia in '74.  I don't know
about broadcast, but production was already in color.  If you haven't
already seen my clip on YouTube from AAV, you can see it here:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwZWLPpcFM

And to stay on topic, it includes 3 different models of quads!  I'll be
posting several more segments from there shortly which have additional
shots of the equipment then in use.

Don Norwood
Digitrak Communications, Inc.
www.digitrakcom.com

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: James Paterson <mailto:james at oldtvgear.com>  

	To: Quad List <mailto:quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>  

	Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 7:12 AM

	Subject: Re: [QuadList] frost nixon film

	the monitor also looks strangely like a 1990's sony trinitron
cube style studio monitor

	...yes in the same segment he asks  "is it live" - and the
aussie says "yes"

	live and in color? i dont know about that here in 1974 ?

	no tally lamps on any of the cameras come on

		----- Original Message ----- 

		From: Ted Langdell <mailto:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>  

		To: Quad List <mailto:quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>  

		Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:48 PM

		Subject: Re: [QuadList] frost nixon film

		On Jun 8, 2010, at 12:45 AM, James Paterson wrote:

			The scenes supposed to be in australia were
factually very incorrect so far as the tv equipment is concerned.

		There are goofs reported on IMDB:

		http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/goofs

			The transmission as if it were live in color  is
doubtful...we still were importing a lot of 16mm kine recordings of us
news which i think

			came from VISNEWS, and were horribly crap
quality but go around the standards conversions.

		The goof list includes:

		Early in the film Frost is shown in an Australian TV
studio watching the August 1974 broadcast of Nixon's resignation speech
on live television. The broadcast is in color. Australia didn't
introduce color TV until March 1975.

		While Frost and his team are doing research, modern VHS
cassettes are visible in one scene. While the VHS format debuted in
September 1976, it's extremely unlikely that they would have had VHS
tapes of events that happened 2 years earlier.

		In one scene, David Frost
<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296484/>  tapes a segment with an escape
artist in front of the Sydney Opera House, for his Australian talk show.
The Quay Grand apartment complex, also known as "The Toaster", is in the
background. It was built in 1999.

		http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/locations

		Shows only the Sydney Opera House as an Australian
location... but that doesn't rule out other locations.

		As for the original Nixon/Frost sessions-"The Nixon
Interviews"-here's the Crew list:

		http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261639/fullcredits

		Anyone recognize any names?

		Know what company supplied the truck and cameras used?
Whether the movie is accurate in its portrayal of equipment?

		And since the programs were recorded in 1977, were they
on Quad or 1"? Edited on? Where?

		James: You mention Visnews and Kines.  Reminds me of
taking some 16mm 7242 color reversal film into Allied Diner labs (or was
it just Leo Diner then) in  San Francisco, just down Golden Gate Ave.
from ABC owned KGO-TV.

		Diner had a bench with three or four kine recording
setups and telco lines that brought-if I remember correctly from back in
1974-ABC, NBC and CBS into the building so they could record material
for processing and shipment to Australia.

		Ted.

		Ted Langdell

		Secretary

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