[QuadList] Fwd: Re: The Beatles, Washington D.C. 1964

[Dennis Degan]

		On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:27 AM, David Crosthwait wrote:

 > The cameras in use were from Tele-Tape and were Marconi's, very  
similar to or the exact ones as viewed here in other Tele-Tape photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kennyalexander/3966892126/in/photostream/ 
. I believe this company went on to become Reeves-Teletape (perhaps).

		I report:

	David, Reeves and Teletape were two separate companies.  Reeves was  
the legendary company started by Hazzard Reeves, a film audio pioneer  
involved in the development of mag-coated perf film, and a principal  
at Cinerama.  Teletape was one of the earliest providers of  
independent remote television production and offered their remote  
facilities for many familiar early remote shoots, which were rare in  
the early days of videotape.  Teletape's remote productions included a  
Herb Alpert special shot on a beach in California.  The company was  
also responsible for both Barbra Streisand specials shot in New York,  
"My Name is Barbra" and "Color Me Barbra".
	Reeves and Teletape merged in 1967.  I worked at Reeves/Teletape from  
1979 to 1986.
	Before the merger, Reeves provided videotape facilities for all 3  
networks at their videotape center in Manhattan at 304 East 44th  
Street.  Reeves had some of the earliest color videotape systems  
available.  In particular, Reeves offered color playback capabilities  
to CBS for many 'Television Tape' productions in the early 60's.   
Their RCA color VTRs were even featured in an issue of RCA Broadcast  
News (I don't know which one).
	Ken Alexander's father Bob was my boss when I worked at R/T.  Ken is  
now a systems engineer for NBC (I think).

			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
					     NBC Today Show, New York




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