[QuadList] Ampex Head Lines newsletter--Here's a look back to 1959-Page 6--

[Ted Langdell]

Another in our continuing series.  If anyone has other editions of Ampex Head Lines, we'd appreciate high quality scans to OCR text and pull photos from, or the originals to scan and send back to you, or the repository of your choice.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com


In 1959, Ampex began publishing a newsletter specifically about Videotape and the company's Videotape products.  


Here's the sixth page of Volume 1 Number 3, published in December, 1959, with type turned into editable text by OCR.  


Page 6



Reginald H. Hammans, director of engineering for Granada TV, looks over four of the five Ampex recorders in the firm’s video control room at Manchester, England. The English broadcaster also uses two other VR-1000s in mobile units for remote productions.

DIAMOND SPARKLES IN COLOR
Using its Ampex color VTR, WLW-T (Cincinnati) recently demonstrated to RCA officials and press representatives a new system for color telecasts of night baseball and basketball.
At this demonstration, the group witnessed a night color Ampex tape recording of Crosley Field, home of the Cincinnati Reds. Made under normal field lighting, the tape, according to press reports, revealed true colors with sharp and clear definition.
Robert E. Dunville, president of the Crosley Broadcasting Corp., states that successful color telecasting with normal night lighting is made possible by the development of three tubes so sensitive they make special lenses used in the original experiment more than adequate to pick up activity under normal night lighting for baseball. The specifications for these tubes were engineered by Howard Lepple, WLW-T’s chief engineer, and manufactured by General Electric.

AAAA LISTS TAPE DEFINITIONS 
The American Association of Advertising Agencies’ subcommittee on TV tape development has suggested the following definitions:
Original — The first tape recording of a television signal.
Note: There may be several originals, of course, if several machines are used to record from the television signal.
Master —The first tape complete in all its production elements.
Note: An “original” recording can also be a “master” if. it is complete in all its elements, such as a production recorded in continuity.
The term “protection master” may be used to identify a master which has been designated for protection purposes.
Copy — Any recording made solely from a TV tape signal, whether original, master or copy.
Note: A “copying master” is a master tape designated for use in making copies.
Leader — That portion of a tape recording immediately preceding the program or commercial content.
Run-Out —That portion of a tape recording immediately following the program or commercial content.

NAVY STEAMS INTO KFMB FOR DEFENSE MANEUVERS
Public service programming took on “spectacular” lines when KFMB-TV, San Diego, taped its own hour-long documentary on national security. “TARGET, USA” is the story of the nation’s defense against the threat of missile attack from enemy submarines.
The station sent a special news crew more than 16,000 miles to shoot 10,000 feet of film on actual submarine detection maneuvers. At the same time, on the home front, the KFMB-TV production department reconstructed actual briefing areas and interiors of naval vessels on a studio sound stage.
More than five tons of Navy sonar, radar and communications equipment was moved to the studios, along with ready room furniture from the carrier USS BENNINGTON, to make the sets as realistic as possible.
According to set designer Ray Trail, the Navy provided everything that could be desired for realism.
“We stopped just short of flooding the studio with eight feet of water,” he quipped.
In the mocked-up studio, navy personnel re-enacted their actual duty assignments while the station’s VTR crew recorded ive hours of tape.

Vice Admiral Ruthven Libby, commander of the First Fleet, narrated KFMB’s “TARGET, USA,” public-service program.
In final production, the massive film footage and tape recordings were reviewed and edited down to the final hour-long version. The completed production was then transferred to tape.
Following its airing on KFMB, the tape of “TARGET, USA” was released to Channel 8’s sister stations in the Transcontinental Group.


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Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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