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

[Gary Adams]

I must apologize if someone was waiting for me outside the theatre today.  I
was going to hold up my cell phone with a picture of Ted’s Quad Reel.
Unfortunately, Ted couldn’t make it due to lack of headwheel air, or was it
a water pump on his car?   My window for lunch is not as wide as the rest as
I am doing a small bit of work for the event so I didn’t even get lunch
today.  It just seems we really need Ted to keep the momentum at these
smaller events.  I’m sure we can do a better job at AMIA, Austin in
November.  I really wanted to contact David C as well but I guess customer
visits have to get in the way.

 

Regards, Gary Adams

 

From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com
[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Ted Langdell
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:06 AM
To: Quad List
Subject: [QuadList] Today: Third Annual Quad Videotape Group "The Reel
Thing" gathering in Los Angeles: Lunch, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011

 

With "The Reel Thing underway in Hollywood... we'll be meeting at 12:45 p.m.
for  what's become an annual Quad Videotape Group gathering in the LA area.

 

Here's the basics:

When:    12:45 p.m., 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 (like me) 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   <http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/>
QuadVideotapeGroup.com: 

Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction
with the Library of Congress

ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

 

CEO

flashscan8.us <http://www.flashscan8.us/> 

iPhone:  (530) 301-2931

Office:    (530) 741-1212

ted at flashscan8.us

Skype:   TedLangdell

 

Celebrating the First Anniversary of the 16/35HD Vario, installed at the
Library of Congress July 29, 2010

• Hollywood, The ReelThing XXVII
<http://www.amianet.org/events/thereelthing/index.htm> , August 19-20

• Los Angeles—Demo Week, August 22-26—Click to Book
<mailto:ted at flashscan8.us?subject=LA%20Demo%20Week--Book%20a%20Demo->  a
demo

• AMIA <http://www.amiaconference.com/>  in Austin, TX, November 15-19,
2011—Click to Book a
<mailto:ted at flashscan8.us?subject=AMIA%202011--Book%20a%20Demo->  demo

and other technical conferences in 2011.

 

 

 

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