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

[lee williams]

Hay Dave, 
Take a closer look at the youtube video when they show the TD area. 
You will see the glass on the side of the wall. 
If that still would have been of 5, there would be a 2'X4' white steel panel with 2 support chains hanging down just above the forward cable rat hole. Also 5 was the only one with the roof support rings on the truck. 
 
It was not unusual for TAV to have multiple trucks at a location for support and to extend the cables. But you were sitting in TAV5.  
 
Ted,
They would set up the truck so the window had a clear view of the stage when the stage doors were left open. If Jerry Lewis wanted a break or make a change, he would flash a hand signal to the director and the TD would flash the light on the camera for confermation. They cut that window in the trailer for him and it was the only time it was ever used.  
 


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Lee, 

Unless I am having total brain fade, the still picture (high angle) of the truck is the same as the "behind the scenes" video. It was shot the same day, video and 35mm photos. KCOP during my tenure only did the Rose Parade once (yes they did do it before my time with their GE truck and TS-40 switcher but I heard that went terribly bad). So is this TAV 3 or TAV 5? May I presume that one of the older color Conrac round tube monitors was the catalyst for the fire?

David Crosthwait


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On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:04 PM, lee williams wrote:


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>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. 
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>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.  
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>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.  
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>The PC 70's Ed has are from TAV5. 
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>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.
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>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!
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>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.
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>Here is a better shot of that truck:
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>The complete set of pictures from that remote can be seen here.
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>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.
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>Best Regards,
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>David Crosthwait
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>On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:
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>>On Nov 18, 2012, at 9:00 AM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com 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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>>Ted
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