[QuadList] Pearl Harbor Day and Quad Tape Anniversaries--Ping Dennis Deegan--Call for stories

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Wayne and George,

Thanks!  Will pass on the kind words as I'm able. 

Of the limited amount of PH 70th coverage I was able to catch—(or dig up... and I DO mean DIG)— I thought the piece George Lewis reported on the Today show...

http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/45580424/#45580424

was very well done.  

Dennis, could you pass that on to the editor(s), researchers who dug up file footage, the camera people involved, producer(s), writer(s) and of course, George?

My wife found the clip pretty easily this morning.  It had been sent to the back room and took me about 20 minutes to find it by the time Nightly had aired in the East.  

The Navy had crews working today:
http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=111620

Not as much coverage on-line or on-air from Hawaii as I'd expected. I'd wanted to catch the on-line stream from the National Park Service live this morning at 8 a.m. California time, but wound up in the middle of a conference call with a client to help them finalize a purchase and learn what the next steps were. 

Anyway, glad you enjoyed the various links' content.

In the course of researching the Quad stuff, I ran across some other interesting or related stuff.  We'll see what might become of that in the future.

Wish I had more time to poke around and talk with people.  Like Pearl Harbor Survivors and other WW II veterans, the Television and Quad Pioneers are passing on.

LA, Tucson, Florida and NYC are four places I'd like to spend some time recording oral histories with some of the pioneers. There are still folks in these places with stories to tell.

If you know of some Pioneers in your area and have time and a reasonable video camera, tripod and lav mike you can use, try to take the time and talk with them about their place in creating the infrastructure and content that this business  was built on.  

Get shots or good stills of their photos, films and videotapes that illustrate their time in the trenches, trucks and towers.

And then turn the camera around and tell your own story.

We can work with James Snyder to arrange for the Oral Histories and other materials to be deposited with the Library of Congress.

On Dec 7, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Wayne Watson wrote:
> And a big thanks to your Dad from your Canadian friends. Love the slide rule story. Great stuff to look at for an old Ampex guy; thanks Ted.
>  
> Wayne Watson
> Broadcast Systems Technology


On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:38 PM, george keller wrote:
> Great stuff Ted, please give your Dad a big "Bravo Zulu" for me.  There is some great stuff in those links.  Ann and I will be at Pearl Harbor later this month with #1 son and the grand kids.
>  
> 73,
>  
> George Keller


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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