[QuadList] Ampex Head Lines newsletter-Alamo set burns

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Bill, 

Sorry to hear about the Brackettville set.  In my research, an item popped up about the place closing in 2009, if I recall my scanning the Google info properly.

Glad to hear you'll be busy. 

Sounds like you may need heads?

See my next e-mail.

Ted


On Oct 30, 2011, at 4:45 PM, <bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv> <bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.  
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> 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."
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> The film "The Alamo," and the TV show were shot at Alamo Village on Hwy. 674 in Brackettsville. 
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> The show aired on ABC, November 14, 1960, in the 9:30 to 10:30 prime-time slot. 
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> 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
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> You'll see John Wayne in the clip. Others appearing are here:
> http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/578925?view=cast
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> 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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