[QuadList] Videotape splicing caught on tape-- and a lot more

[Bill Carpenter]

 Hi Don & Folks,

I saw a special swinging table next to each VR-1200 in Mexico City for the 68 
Olympics in the International Broadcast Center, designed specially to hold the 
Smith splicer.

I was working with ABS/CBN from the Philippines, who had a couple of Wrestlers 
in competition and were using the VR-7800's and sending tapes back home and 
using the slow motion with the noise bar "On-Air" to build out the program. 


The folks using the quads used gloves when splicing to keep the oils from the 
hands from contaminating the tapes. 


The "one hand use" may have been where the un-gloved hand was used to handle the 
splicing tape. And then the gloved hand would smooth the splice and contact the 
tape. 


This would be sorta like the " dry hand/wet hand" process that cooks use when 
coating food for deep frying.

Bye for now, Bill Carpenter





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From: Don Norwood <dwnorwood at embarqmail.com>
To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Wed, January 26, 2011 8:28:46 PM
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Videotape splicing caught on tape-- and a lot more

 
Ted:
 
Thanks for finding these!  I had not seen them before.   Definitely a variety of 
classic gear there.  The bay of 3 Ampex  machines are actually VR-1200's, not 
2000's.  Also a nice shot of a VR-3000  in the opening and closing montage 
sequences.
 
What's the deal with the single gloved hand and the splicer?  Isn't  that 
somewhat pointless if the other hand is bare?  I've never used a Smith  splicer, 
so am I missing something? 
 
Also was amused by the tape reel wobbling around on what appeared to be a  
manual film winder.  What was that about???
 
Great stuff!
 
Don
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ted Langdell 
>To: Quad List 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:01    AM
>Subject: [QuadList] Videotape splicing    caught on tape-- and a lot more
>
>
>Rewind in time and play some memories about mechanics, machines and men    
>(women too) with this trio of clips from a 1976 3/4" videocassette—"Videotape:    
>Images with Impact"—© Thomas M. Edinger that was found in a student television    
>station... 
>
>
>The first clip has a working VR-1000 at 3:58 in
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2m8buwp_Y&feature=related
>
>
>A minute later, a pair of VR-1000s are seen as a white-gloved editor uses    a 
>Smith splicer and microscope to cut, splice and test an edit.
>
>
>The tape outlines how NBC ESG (Edit Sync Guide) film-based system worked.    It 
>was used with great success on many shows for more than a decade, even when    
>electronic editing came in, including the heavily edited "Rowan and Martin's    
>Laugh In." Black and white film workprint from Laugh In are seen, and Bob Hope    
>jokes about the editor in the basement...
>
>
>You'll see VR-2000's, AVR-2's and a variety of 1970's editing gear as the    
>video explains the history of television editing.
>
>Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlg__o8xqs&feature=related
>
>
>Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJupZLyGus&feature=related
>
>
>Ted  
>
>
>Ted Langdell
>Skype: TedLangdell
>e-mail:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com
>


      
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