[QuadList] Third Annual Quad Videotape Group "The Reel Thing" gathering in Los Angeles: Lunch, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011

[Ted Langdell]

Hardly seems that a year has gone by and it's time for another "The  
Reel Thing in Hollywood... and what's become an annual Quad Videotape  
Group gathering in the LA area.

Here's the basics:
When:	Lunch break, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011.
Gather:	Outside front entrance to:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Pickford Center
1313 North Vine St.
Hollywood, CA	90028

Landmark:	Look for someone holding
			a faded Memorex Chroma 90 reel
			that looks like this:


1313 North Vine is the former Don Lee/KHJ-TV (and one-time CBS  
facility) from the early years of television.

Gary Adams from DaVinci's Revival platform and I have been doing this  
for three years, now, and have been joined for lunch or dinner by an  
interesting mix of folks, including Al Sturm, co-founder of the late  
Merlin Engineering Works and still active in Quad VTR improvement.

Spontaneous gatherings of Quad-centric folks have occurred during  
various lunch or dinner breaks at "The Reel Thing" and we'll post a  
message to the list if something pops up.

Last year, we had a dinner gathering of a number of folks with Quad  
roots... and had a very good time eating Mexican food up the street in  
the Arclight Theater food court.

Here's some detail about the Association of Moving Image Archivists'  
sponsored "The Reel Thing XXVII" in case you're interested in attending:
http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/2011/program.htm

Among the highlights:

The Reel Thing opens on Thursday, August 18th with a reception and the  
premiere screening of the 4k restoration of 20,000 Leagues Under the  
Sea, plus ...
EYE Film Institute Netherlands Restoration and Screening ofShoes (USA  
1916)
Case study: 4K restoration and premiere screening of Marcel Carné's  
The Children of Paradise
Managing Large Scale Sound Preservation
Scanning for Preservation, a Studio test case
Where Did Our Films Go? - The Destruction and Survival of American  
Silent Feature Films
Case study: Reconstruction and restoration of long-lost Ernst Lubitsch  
silent film The Loves of Pharoah
The Media History Digital Library - Digitizing the history of cinema
Audio restoration challenges: silent films converted to sound
The ABC's of Color Space
Restoring the 1902 Georges Méliès classic Le Voyage dans la Lune  
(includes screening)
Sneak Preview of a newly restored film!
The Friday and Saturday sessions are followed by an evening screening  
of a complete film, often one the restoration of which was discussed  
during the session presentation.

Sessions and screenings are held in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts  
and Sciences' Linwood Dunn Theater, with lunch and dinner breaks of  
sufficient length to walk to and from good eats nearby.

Hope to see some of you at either the Quad Videotape Group lunch on  
Saturday or at The Reel Thing.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary for the  QuadVideotapeGroup.com:
Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in  
conjunction with the Library of Congress
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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Celebrating the First Anniversary of the 16/35HD Vario, installed at  
the Library of Congress July 29, 2010
• Hollywood, The ReelThing XXVII, August 19-20
• Los Angeles—Demo Week, August 22-26—Click to Book a demo
• AMIA in Austin, TX, November 15-19, 2011—Click to Book a demo
and other technical conferences in 2011.



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