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

[Steve White]

David,

Great to hear from you.  Thanks very much.

Tele-Tape and Marconi make sense.  I'd forgotten their name, but I 
worked several other remotes for them, including baseball.  And I 
started to suggest last night that the camera backing through the shot 
near the end of the tape might be a Marconi.  I think the closing 
credits showed Lee Tannen for the DC portion...but, I had been unable to 
remember his name.

I don't think there were any "portable" color cameras, if by that you 
mean handheld.  Ikegami had a handheld b/w camera but it would be early 
70s before they had the HL-33.  The first RCA color handheld was a TK-41 
broken into two pieces, first created by customers of RCA and then 
manufactured by RCA themselves.

Regarding the photo, are you comfortable sharing it one-on-one?

Regards,
Steve

On 4/30/12 12:27 AM, David Crosthwait wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Thanks for telling us about your experience. Do you recall who the 
> D.C. director was?
>
> Several months ago, we all tried to guess the remote truck that did 
> the show. The thread eventually died and no further discussion 
> continued. However I received a private photo of the concert not too 
> long ago but I've been unable to post it due to possible copyright 
> infringement (I'm working on that issue). 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 was told that the D.C. concert was not recorded in color due to a 
> "shortage of portable color cameras", presuming to mean RCA TK 41's as 
> nothing else really existed (perhaps GE PE 25's?). The NBC Burbank 
> sections of the closed circuit feed of Leslie Gore and The Beach Boys 
> could have been color but instead were black & white to match the D.C 
> recording.
>
> For photos, Mike Mitchell recently made a ton of $ on his shots at 
> that 
> concert: http://www.christies.com/features/auctions/0711/beatles-illuminated/ 
> <http://www.christies.com/features/auctions/0711/beatles-illuminated/>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> David Crosthwait
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> On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Steve White wrote:
>
>> Gentlemen,
>>
>> It brings back great memories to wander through your thread...
>>
>> We couldn't hear the director over the crowd.  We couldn't hear the 
>> Beatles.
>>
>> I was part of the crew, hauling cable and setting up camera 
>> positions, but primarily setting up microphones and audio cables.  
>> You're right.  It was put together quickly and felt more like a 
>> wrestling remote.  That may even be me on the floor to the right of 
>> the camera in this shot of the ring/stage.  Notice the cameraman is 
>> trying to press the headset to his ears to block out some of the 
>> crowd noise. And, yes, many wore jacket and tie.
>>
>> <Mail Attachment.jpeg>
>>
>>
>> Any chance you can point me to someone with stills from that night, 
>> especially of the crew and facilities?  We were pick up crew.  I was 
>> at WTTG at the time and some of the guys were from WTOP, I think.  I 
>> had also worked at WTOP as "director trainee" for awhile when I first 
>> got out of college.  I cannot remember the name of the production 
>> company that hired us, but suspect they're long gone.  I don't 
>> remember whose truck it was.  I don't think it was TTG's.  It may 
>> have been TOP's.
>>
>> I did find the video and did see the camera being pulled back through 
>> a shot near the end.  That may have been the one I was tethered to as 
>> floor guy.  Do you think it was an RCA?  I'm not sure.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to watching the documentary on May 22nd at the 
>> Strand Theater in nearby Rockland, Maine.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve White
>>
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