CASCOM Effects?

[William Shepherd]

Hello Ted,

                Thank you for that information. I was Googling around but couldn’t confirm much. You were able to pull up quite a bit so thank you again. You’ve put together a good timeline. I’m fairly confident now that the reels have the stock footage from that company. There’s no note of them being reused for another purpose so it’s likely the original content.

                The YouTube link you sent is all kinds of awesome. Thank you for that.

William Shepherd
Collections Officer
Swift Current Museum
44 Robert Street West
Swift Current, Saskatchewan
S9H 4M9
Phone: 306-778-4815
Fax: 306-778-4818

From: Ted Langdell [mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com]
Sent: February 16, 2018 11:28 AM
To: William Shepherd <w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca>
Cc: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Subject: Re: CASCOM Effects?

Hi William,


Welcome to the QuadList.
A little googling shows that you are likely headed in the right direction.

The http://www.cascom.com<http://www.cascom.com/> website reports:

"Welcome to CASCOM International, Inc. Our stock footage library encompasses everything from film, computer animation and effects, to archive footage such as newsreel, old movies and other collections.

The film-generated animated graphics in the Select Effects Library are reputed to be some of the finest in the world! Categories of footage include sports, extreme sports, cities and citiscapes, scenery, animals, and much more!

Cascom's stock footage catalog is now available through Blackstone Stock Footage<http://www.blackstonestockfootage.com/>. You can reach Blackstone Stock Footage at 615-731-5310<tel:615-731-5310>.

This site is managed by Spectrum Research, Inc<http://www.spectrum-research.com/>.

Thanks for visiting CASCOM."


The Blackstone stock footage website appears to be dead. A whois registration check reveals it is now registered from Japan.  No website loaded from the URL.


Markee magazine shows a listing for Blackstone with an email address:

http://markeemagazine.com/wp/guides/stock-footage-guide/


BLACKSTONE STOCK FOOTAGE
615-731-5310<tel:615-731-5310>
g.clifford at worldnet.att.net<mailto:g.clifford at worldnet.att.net>

That phone number shows up on a number of other webpages including business listings like yelp and various yellow pages listings. They show an address in Antioch Tennessee.


http://variety411.com/biz/blackstone-stock-footage/3610551/amp/


Spectrum Research is still in business, apparently as a software and software related product development company in Nashville.


It worked with CASCOM  to develop some software shown here:


http://www.spectrum-research.com/V2/projects_5000plus.asp#<http://www.spectrum-research.com/V2/projects_5000plus.asp>


Here is a 90 minute CASCOM clip reel from 1990:
https://youtu.be/tj-oegUSaF0


Hope this is helpful.

Ted


Ted Langdell
Secretary, Quad Videotape Group
Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com<mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
(530)301-2931


Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch.



On Feb 16, 2018, at 6:45 AM, William Shepherd <w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca<mailto:w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca>> wrote:
Hello,

                I’ve come across nine reels that are marked as CASCOM Effects with different volume and identification numbers on 1” Type C reels. I’m guessing these were stock transitions and special effects for broadcasts. Could anyone confirm this? Thanks!

William Shepherd
Collections Officer
Swift Current Museum
44 Robert Street West
Swift Current, Saskatchewan
S9H 4M9
Phone: 306-778-4815
Fax: 306-778-4818

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