[QuadList] Ampex Head Lines newsletter--Here's a look back to1959-Page 6--Ampex nears 10, 000 hours of Network VRX-1000 use

[bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv]

In the recent rash of fires this Summer in Texas, the Alamo set in Bracketville burned.  It had been like a tourist stop for many years.  That makes it even more important now that this program is restored and made available.
 
I have a batch of 1,600 tapes to start on soon.  Just when you think they have all been done up comes another warehouse of treasures!
 
Bill Spencer
RF Engineering Supervisor
(615) 650-6610
(615) 445-5616 CP

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Ampex Head Lines reports that KTLA and KMOX-TV's remote trucks were used for the six-camera, two VTR shoot in Brackettville, Texas. That was in Nov. 1959.


At the time, CBS owned KMOX-TV, and Paramount owned  KTLA, which had relocated in 1958 from original digs on the Paramount lot on Melrose to the former Warner Brothers Sunset Studios which Paramount owned and renamed Paramount Sunset Studios.  


Seems that the program taped by the two trucks and Ampex VTR's was the "Pontiac Star Parade" called "Spirit of the Alamo" according to the British Film Institute Film and TV Database <http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/578925> . BFI says it featured "the wrap party on THE ALAMO production as well as various passages from individual cast members, and an interview with ex-US vice president John Nance Garner. The programme was taped by the Paramount Television Productions (KTLA) crew dispatched to the film's location at Brackettville, Texas."


The film "The Alamo," and the TV show were shot at Alamo Village on Hwy. 674 in Brackettsville. 


The show aired on ABC, November 14, 1960, in the 9:30 to 10:30 prime-time slot. 


A clip from the show is on YouTube-:33 into the clip-and appears to be taken from video rather than a Kinescope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3LumOv0kcw


You'll see John Wayne in the clip. Others appearing are here:
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/578925?view=cast


L.I. Salaman wrote, Perry Cross produced, Seymour Robbie co-produced and directed and Dimitri Tiomkin provided music.  Ampex reports that the technical side included KTLA's chief engineer John Silva, program manager Bob Quinlan and production supervisor Hal Dasbach.


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