[QuadList] OT: Mike Wallace passed away last night--Career spanned live radio, TV, kinescope, Quad and SD television recording media

[Ted Langdell]

CBS News Correspondent Mike Wallace passed away last night (8pm Eastern, Sat., April 7, 2012) at age 93.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57410999/remembering-mike-wallace-1918-2012/?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Wallace's career spanned from live "television without pictures" (radio) with disc transcriptions and early audio tape through the entire range of television in Standard Definition: The Kinescope era, into Quad, One-Inch Type C, 3/4" (rare, if at all for 60 Minutes) Betacam, BetacamSP, and whatever formats CBS was using to record, edit and air his last appearance.

That was a 60 Minutes interview with retired baseball athlete Roger Clemons that aired Jan. 6, 2008, nine months before the 60 Minutes broadcast went to 1920 x 1080HD.  Wallace had triple-bypass heart surgery later that month.

Wallace is best known for more than 37 years as a primary correspondent on 60 Minutes, which was assembled and aired from Quad videotape in its first years, with studio introductions of filmed field stories.

Here's the first one, with slate:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20017558-10391709.html

and a longer form with some great magnetic sound:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-504803_162-57411009-10391709/a-look-back-at-some-memorable-mike-wallace-reports/?tag=contentMain;contentAux

Note some Quad banding and dropouts, and bit of lag in the film island camera and a red chroma delay. 

The mag sound in the film sequences seems clearer to me than a lot of what we hear today, even though "digital" isn't generally expected to lose a lot of quality over several generations of processing.

A retrospective about Wallace is planned for the 60 Minutes broadcast on Sunday, April 15, 2012, when many of us will be at NAB, prepping for "what's next."  

The blessing of DVR/PVR and on-line viewing may make it possible for some of us to "See it Later."

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Fifth Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB
12:30pm, Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Lower South Hall REAR food concession area

See us at NAB 2012, April 16-19 in Booth SL-9607


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