[QuadList] MTV and first video music shows

[David Crosthwait]

Dennis, 

I think many engineers were so fed up with the TK 42 that they personally guaranteed their destruction i.e. opened the dumpster for the deposit. The ones that Chuck were referring to had apparently been given special treatment (as was the case many times with educational TV stations). Meaning, many of those entities existed only on donated and discarded equipment. It was a personal goal for each and every member of the staff to make the equipment do what it wasn't supposed to do in terms of performance. Chuck said:   "It was kind of an ad-hoc hobby gig, as we were working at "real" day jobs early in our TV careers. A great many of us are still doing this (since we have no other marketable or useful skills)."  Even though the cameras that Chuck's associates used were at the end of their production life, the care and feeding of them produced really good clarity and color for what beasts they were for the most part. And that is a real trick when you consider that the light path was split up four different directions between and Image Orth. and three vidicons. So, the video engineers in who took an interest in those cameras deserve an award as far as I am concerned.

I will see if I can receive permission to post at least a still frame or two from the productions. 


Best Regards,

David Crosthwait
DC Video
Archived Media Transfer and Re-mastering Services

DAVID at DCVIDEO.COM
WWW.DCVIDEO.COM




On Jun 16, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Dennis Degan wrote:

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> 		On Jun 15, 2011, at 3:00 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:
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> > And the best looking TK 42's I've ever seen anywhere!
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> 		I wonder:
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> 	Where are they now?   ;)
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> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 					     NBC Today Show, New York
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