[QuadList] Saturday Quad Matinee feature--KCOP, 13, Los Angeles--1979 Ros...

[lee williams]

Hay Dave, 
The truck you are looking down on is TAV3. 
That truck burned to the ground when one of the conrac monitors shorted out. 
 
The one you are in video of is TAV5 and that was the one that was always at Cesars Palace. 
TAV 5 had the Jerry Lewis window cut in to the side so he could give hand signals directly to the TD while live. 
It was also the one that had the cargo rings installed on the roof. 
Bob Hope had it flown to Vietnam for one of his Christmas Specials and I have seen a picture of it strpped in to a C-130.  
 
The trailer and it's tractor are still on the road today. 
The trailer was gutted years ago and owned by a guy who build racing trucks for movies out in Bakersfield. 
I know he had the tractor listed on craigslist last year and was trying to sell it after California changed it's registration requirements for commercial trucks.  
 
The PC 70's Ed has are from TAV5. 


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From: David Crosthwait <dcfwtx at aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Saturday Quad Matinee feature--KCOP, 13, Los Angeles--1979 Ros...




Yes, I never worked for TAV although I knew some who did and have transferred many of their 2" and 1" product over the years. I visited their post facilities in the late seventies initially.

TAV trucks did a lot of shows out of Vegas back then. Before the Green-Crowe trucks (and others) came on the scene, TAV was everywhere remote-truck wise. I bet they had a permanent, reserved parking spot at Caesar's Palace!

If I am not mistaken, this particular truck that I worked in late '78-early '79 went on to Dr. Gene Scott's outfit. If it was not this one, it was one of the other TAV units of similar vintage.

Here is a better shot of that truck:


The complete set of pictures from that remote can be seen here.

One last bit of trivia: If you look closely at the video, you will faintly see the red "record" button lit up along with the "Aud-Vid" green button on the Editec panel. For this "behind the scenes" piece, I was hot assemble editing on the VR-2000 under Editec control where I had laid the last cue tone. I would count down the director (and everyone else on the PL) for the next edit. It was fun and it worked out just fine.




Best Regards,

David Crosthwait
DC Video
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On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:


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>did not know you worked for TAV Dave!
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>He didn't. KCOP rented the truck. Dave worked at KCOP at the time. 
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>Fun to see the folks back then. Many of us had hair! :)
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