[QuadList] frost nixon film

[Don Norwood]

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 
  To: Quad List 
  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 
    To: Quad List 
    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 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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