[QuadList] The Nixon Answer - Michigan - 1968

[Scott Thomas]

Thank you Chris. I saw that lens sticking out from the camera body and thought, RCA. So, the PE-250 was a 4 tube camera design right?



What quads did WWJ have?



Scott Thomas




On May 19, 2017, at 08:09 AM, Chill315 at aol.com wrote:


The cameras are GE PE-250.  That means it was taped at Channel 4 which was WWJ at the time and now WDIV or Channel 2 which  is WJBK.  Or possibly using The remote truck from WJBK.  If done at the Canadian station CKLW, now CBET channel 9 they also had GE cameras.  I do not recognize the name Bud Wilkenson as a personality form one of these stations.
 
The other stations had TK 42 and 43 cameras.  The PBS station got Visual VP-3 cameras later.
 
Chris Hill
 
In a message dated 5/19/2017 2:48:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:



-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Thomas <scottgfx at mac.com>
Subject: The Nixon Answer - Michigan - 1968
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 02:47:34 -0400
To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>


I was reading some of the press about Roger Ailes’s passing and followed a link to this…


https://youtu.be/-Dg6yfOpYYY



The copy transcribed here is Helical (lots of dropouts), but the master is obviously Quad. Quite a few tell-tale signs.


One thing I thought was interesting was how the cameras looked. Kind of a pastel color like a TK-41. I think I see the silhouette of a TK-42 camera in the shadows. Don’t know if I’ve really looked at TK-42 footage this closely.


Detail from a image orthicon would explain why this is sharp with a soft color overlay I suppose. Doesn’t look like a Plumbicon camera anyway.


I have a friend here in Southwest Florida who was probably in his late teens / early twenties, in Detroit when this was taped. Who knows, he may have been running one of the cameras. :)


Scott Thomas




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