[QuadList] Did NBC use white lines for queuing?

Kevin Segura k.segura at comcast.net
Wed Mar 30 23:57:33 CDT 2016


Just for the sake of historic notation, the December 1959 videotape reel 
that I have from the Jack Paar Show (Tonight Show) also has a cue box at 
the commercial breaks.

- Kevin Segura, Media Doctors



On 3/30/2016 7:09 PM, David Crosthwait via QuadList wrote:
>
> Coincidentally, I came across a cue box on a live1961 Dinah Shore show 
> (studio 4 Burbank) I was transferring today. This was not her normal 
> Chevy show as S&H Green Stamps was the sponsor on this episode. The 
> live Chevy sponsored shows don't have the cue box (commercials were 
> either live out of studio 2 adjacent to studio 4 or from a color film 
> chain in telecine). But this particular show did. So why this show had 
> the box is unknown unless there were some regional inserts expected 
> over the net feed. This is the earliest cue box I've ever come across 
> on 2" Quad videotapes from NBC.
>
>
> The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson had cue boxes coming directly 
> out of studio 1. The following frame grab is from a 2" Quad Tonight 
> Show recording direct to 2" from SDO 1.
>
>
> So the BOC theory might be plausible but at least in these two 
> examples, it was applied at the production switcher.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> David Crosthwait
> DC Video
> Preservation Level Videotape Transfers and More!
>
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