[QuadList] In Bing Crosby?s Wine Cellar, Vintage Baseball

[David C. Crosthwait]

Scott,

No they are kine reels (although CBS radio network news yesterday  
morning reported it as videotape). I've known Rob for years, having  
work on 2" projects over the course (the most recent being the Bing  
Crosby special for PBS with 2" tape from that very "wine storage  
room"). A common friend talked with Rob yesterday about the deal with  
MLB. It was a substantial amount of coinage.
I'm not sure who did the kine, but it would not have surprised me if  
it was Acme.

Rob got his visual "claim to fame" on ABC Evening News last night, but  
the camera crew was not granted access to the storage room.

David
www.dcvideo.com


Quoting Scott Thomas <scottgfx at mac.com>:

> From the article:
>
> "How a near pristine black-and-white reel of the entire television   
> broadcast of the deciding game of the 1960 World Series ? long   
> believed to be lost forever ? came to rest in the dry and cool wine   
> cellar of Bing Crosby?s home near San Francisco is not a mystery to   
> those who knew him."
>
> Kinescopes? I figured Bing would have bought a Quad by 1960. Perhaps  
>  it's a issue of pride, as his company tried to develop a practical   
> videotape machine?
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/sports/baseball/24crosby.html?_r=1