THE HBO LEGACY INITIATIVE - missing 1970s Quads

[Segal, Max (HBO-NS)]

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THE  LEGACY  INITIATIVE

Dear Quad Videotape Group …

Blasting you from the past.

I left HBO in 2014 and now I have been recruited back to help preserve HBO’s glorious and partially missing past.

For our initial search of HBO legacy materials, we are looking for HBO pioneer days (1972-76) artifacts.   Pioneer photos, marketing materials, commemoratives, etc.  That being said, we are desperately on the hunt for two inch videotapes from the early 70s (1972-76) where there are big gaps in the HBO library.

Most of the earliest original HBO programming were in Sports.  HBO’s production partners back them were the Hughes Sports Network, Madison Square Garden, Marvin Sugarman Productions, Service-Electric and a handful of regional producers.

In researching our various storage facilities, only a handful of Quad reels from 1972-76 survived years of purging and recycling.  We have reached out to MSG, sports leagues and promoters.  They have no video from this elusive, pioneer time period either.  Attached is an HBO Sports Program Breakdown report for more details to anyone who is a super sleuth.

We have come close a few times, just not close enough.

1) Announcer Spencer Ross had a storage unit in Massachusetts full of Quads. He cleared out everything about seven years ago
2) Programmer Brad Schrieber had dozens of boxes of screeners in his basement. He tossed them out about eight years ago
3) Production Manager John McPherson had an entire room full of tapes.  They were junked when he passed in 2005.
4) Director Marty Callner moved so many times, he finally let go of the sports reels he was holding onto.
5) Producer Marvin Sugarman threw out more than 400 HBO Sports Quad reels back in 2001
6) TelFax has a storage facility with Quads in Arlington, Texas.  A freak storm destroyed them all.
7) MSG does not have any footage from that early era working with HBO

We need clues to who may still have any personal copies of 1970s HBO programming, either on original two inch or UMatic screeners.

Appreciate what magic you can muster, as well as spreading the word to other Quad pioneers you think may have some HBO treasures,

Keeping hope alive.

Cheers


Max Segal
HBO LEGACY INITIATIVE
917-929-1327
 Max.segal at hbo.com


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