[QuadList] Low Band Color recovery--Bell Telephone Hour--Feb. 16, 1965--

[Ted Langdell]

The February 16, 1965 Bell Telephone Hour episode is "The Masques of Music."

I was also impressed with how clean the transfer looked.

And the overall "look" of the segment and how well Director Sid Smith told the story with two floor cameras and one on a crane.

Ray Bolger hosted, with appearances by Carol Lawrence, Harve Presnell, Régine Crespin and Sándor Kónya.  Charles Andrews produced.

The pianist is  Lorin Hollander, who already has a familiarity with NBC Studio 8-H.  

His father Max was the associate concertmaster for the NBC Symphony, conducted by Aurturo Toscanini from then radio studio 8-H, and this appearance on the Bell broadcast was his fifth and final time.

Hollander was 21 at the time of this live broadcast, had been playing publicly since age 5. He played Carnegie Hall at 11, and began recording for RCA in 1958 when he was 14.

Hollander first Bell Telephone Hour appearance, Nov. 6, 1959 (at age 15), is featured on the DVD "Great Pianists on the Bell Telephone Hour: 1959-1967", VAI 2002 DVD

At 17, he developed a form of epilepsy that intermittently affects how well he can play.   He kept that a secret for 30 years, while making live performances and recording.

He's known for performing several classical pieces in the 1982 film, Sophie's Choice. Still musically active, Hollander also lectures about nurturing prodigies and human creativity.

Here's an alternate way of viewing Hollander's 1959 performance, at 3:44 into this YouTube upload... via a restored 1956 RCA color TV. CTC-5 model... in HD:



Enjoy!

Ted

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On May 25, 2014, at 10:44 AM, William R. Short wrote:

> 
> I've been curious about this for a very long time, but recently seeing some frame grabs and some YouTube transfers (such as the DC Video transfer linked below) has really piqued my curiosity. My experience with quad was at WHEN TV, the CBS affiliate in Syracuse, NY. I worked there for a number of summers while a high school and an undergrad student, and duties included videotape operation and maintenance. The summer I arrived, there were four VR-1000 machines in the tape room, and the summer I left, there were three AVR-1 machines and an ACR-25. Program material recorded in low band color on the VR-1000 suffered from moire in areas of low luminance and high saturation, whether played back on a VR-1000 or an AVR-1. I knew it wasn't just us, because I occasionally saw archival material fed from CBS-NY with moire. I've always assumed moire was inevitable with LBC, and that it was "baked in" to the tape. Yet the frame grabs and YouTube LBC material I've recently seen look stunning, without any visible moire. So, is the moire inevitable with LBC or not?  If not, what was done to mitigate it during recording? If it is, is there some way to recover the analog video without the moire? Or was this material post-processed in the digital domain to remove the moire? Thanks.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX6oGHfyx_I
> 
> Best regards,
> William Short




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