[QuadList] Quad Videotape Group News and Pictures--Summer/Fall 2010 edition--Section 7--Beyond AMIA

Tue Nov 16 12:36:31 CST 2010

Even at 80 mph plus, the colors along the highways (and toll roads) was outstanding (even though the night temperatures produced iced windshields in Virginia. I was in tennis shoes on those mornings).

David

On Nov 16, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> The Joint IASA/AMIA Conference ended in Philadelphia closed on Saturday night, but there was one last gasp for attendees who had registered for a tour of the Library of Congress Culpeper Campus.
> 
> QuadList member Tom Bernier from the Alberta Archives was one of the archivists who had registered for the tour...
> <Tom-Mug.jpg>
> but needed to get to Washington, DC to overnight and catch the bus for the tour... or end up in Culpeper by other means.  I was heading there for other business, so we decided to share the trip.
> 
> After organizing and loading equipment—which took much of Sunday—Tom and I headed south from Philadelphia about 3 p.m.
> 
> The density of population and traffic along I-95 made it quite a trip for Tom. The Philadelphia Eagles were playing at home when we drove past the stadium. Tom kept his iPhone busy taking stills and video as we drove along. I got in the act doing V/O and on-camera Tour Guide.
> 
> We stopped in Our Nation's Capital to take some pictures of Our Nation's Capitol. 
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> Advice... don't go driving round the area with a cargo trailer.  You definitely get attention!  
> And are watched as you go from place to place :)
> 
> If you don't have a tripod, the dual parking meters we found make a useful tripod proxy for shots like these, accomplished by sticking your lens between the meter heads and using it like a saddle.  
> Hold your breath and squeeze gently <g>
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> 
> We did end up in Culpeper just fine.
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> People on the AMIA/IASA tour saw the film labs, Recorded Sound work spaces and a wide range of equipment the NAVCC uses to recover and transfer multiple forms of media to digital files.
> 
> On my previous trip to the NAVCC, my timing has been out of kilter with the schedule for film presentations in the wonderfully equipped theater.
> 
> We were fortunate, this time.
> 
> Tom and I enjoyed the opportunity to see a restored silent film—considered lost—until it was found in New Zealand archives.  The film was Fox's 1927 John Ford picture, "Upstream," one of 75 American films repatriated to the US from NZ.  Click the word "Ustream" to see actual strips from the nitrate print the restoration was made from.
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> The LOC presented the picture with live Wurlitzer Theatre Organ accompaniment on Monday, Nov. 8, just the third showing including the restoration's premiere last month in Los Angeles.
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> The organ rises from a lift in the center of the stage.  
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> Here's a clip of Organist Andrew Simpson in a previous appearance, leading into the screening of Universal's 1928 Horror/Melodrama "The Man Who Laughs":
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flwE-8Cs2gY
> 
> Simpson did a marvelous—and ad-lib—job of creating a musical setting that complimented "Upstream", which was hand-tinted in sections.  He told us after the film that he'd only seen the first ten minutes... and winged most of the show, composing as he went for 50 minutes.
> 
> If you're planning to be in the Culpeper area, check the schedule to see what else is going on at the theater.
> http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/theater/schedule.html
> 
> If you're in Washington, DC, the Library's Pickford Theater is hosting a number of interesting films this month, including a Beatles Film Fest:
> http://www.loc.gov/loc/events/#eventlist9
> 
> Tuesday, Tom took the train to sight-see in Washington, DC while I took care of some business in several places.
> 
> After Tom got back, we met up with James Snyder at one of his favorite places in Fredericksburg, the Fredericksburg Pub  which has an extensive selection of beers... almost larger than the number of caps that have to be shotgunned in an AVR-2.
> 
> So, we drove back to Culpeper and soon were fast asleep.  
> 
> At 2 a.m., this little bugger in the hotel room ceiling starts chirping every 15 seconds or so.  Grrr.  
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> 
> Call the manager. "Nobody here to fix it."
> 
> "Do you have a battery?"  He brought one over, and after adjustments to the AC power connector dangling from the ceiling, we managed to have quiet by 3:30 a.m.  Didn't get much sleep, though.
> 
> We did get a break on the room rate for the inconvenience.  
> 
> Put Tom on the train in the morning. He took Amtrak to Union Station in Washington, DC, then the Acela Express—First Class—to Philadelphia's 30th St. Station, and then the local light rail to the airport to catch a plane for home.
> 
> I headed north toward Philadelphia, and stopped to see clients. Saw more Quads—but didn't take pictures of them.
> 
> In College Park, MD, Tim Bono's Bonofilm has a trio of AVR-2's—one working and two on-deck.
> 
> At Colorlab in Rockville, MD, owner Russ Suniewick has Charlie Brewer keeping an Merlin Ultrafurbed Ampex VR-2000 humming with Quad tape recovery. The Merlinized machine is equipped with the NEC NTC10 digital TBC, among other wizardry.  QuadList member Ken Zin's comment when I mentioned this to him tonight: "Oh, yeah! I sold him the machine!"
> 
> I'm orbiting in Princeton, NJ waiting for a flashscanHD to clear US Customs so I can install it and train its new owners at Tailor-Made Transfers in NE suburb of Feasterville.
> 
> Did go out and take some pix of the fall colors in Princeton, on Sunday.
> 
> There's a lot of color in the home of the Princeton Tigers... seemingly color-coordinated with the flora.
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> 
> 
> Here's a pix I call "Red Leaf Monster attempts to be-head a column."
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> 
> I've got an invite to see the Quad Collection at George Blood Audio / Safe Sound Archive, and hope to shoot pix there.
> 
> NYC after that... and then homeward via Covington, KY and our QuadList member John Walko at SceneSavers, Chicago, Columbia, MO and then California.
> 
> Is there a Quad Videotape Group gathering somewhere along the way? Let me know.
> 
> Mark your calendars for our next two Annual events:
> 
> Fourth Annual Quad Videotape Group Tuesday Lunch at NAB:
> 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, 2011
> Location somewhere in or near Lower South Hall.
> 
> 
> Fourth Annual Quad Videotape Group Dinner at AMIA
> Tuesday, Nov. 15, Austin TX. 
> Time and location to be determined. Suggestions welcome.
> 
> Two more sections to appear:  Sections 2 and 3 with more about the Library of Congress Quad and other VTRs.
> 
> And that's the EOT for now.
> 
> Ted
> 
> Ted Langdell
> Secretary
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