[QuadList] The Beatles, Washington D.C. 1964

[David Crosthwait]

Dennis,

Thank you for the historical perspective on Reeves and Teletape. In regard to early color playback capabilities, I believe ABC-TV's first color tape special was played back from NBC Burbank on their machines, feeding the ABC network. 

David


On Apr 30, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:

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> 		On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:27 AM, David Crosthwait wrote:
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> > 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). 
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> 		I report:
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> 	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).
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> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 					     NBC Today Show, New York
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