<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Hi, David...</div><div><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 27, 2008, at 2:10 PM, <a href="mailto:dcfwtx@aol.com">dcfwtx@aol.com</a> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I transferred "The Gene Kelly Show" several years ago for a now deceased client to Digtial Betacam. RCA non-standard 2" low band color recording on our modified AVR-1 using proprietary modules. One hour show. Burbank recording.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">David Crosthwait<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">DC Video<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.dcvideo.com">www.dcvideo.com</a></blockquote></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>In 1988, KTLA Engineer Don Kent and Engineer/Historian Ed Reitan were involved in the transfer of the 1958 Astaire special and other early Quad color tapes.</div><div><br></div><div>Don did the playback off an AVR-1 that he got KTLA to donate to UCLA's film and television archive. </div><div><br></div><div>Ed modified ten boards that replaced stock ones on this AVR-1, the last working Quad at KTLA. It is now part of the CBS Television City Quad array, where CBS maintains its health.</div><div><br></div><div>Ed e-mailed me when we first put Quadvideotapegroup.com live: </div><div><br></div><div>"As clarification, I use the terminology "RCA Labs Color" for the format of the original Eisenhower, Astaire, and other NBC color tapes used on the modified Ampex machines at Burbank from early 1958 through at least April 1959.</div><div><br></div><div>I suggest the term "RCA Broadcast Color" for the format of the tapes produced by the RCA TRT-1AC, the first color recorder produced by RCA Broadcast of Camden, N.J., and also used by NBC at Burbank starting in April, 1958. </div><div><br></div><div>These are distinguished from tapes made to the later “Low Band Color“ standard later promulgated by SMPTE."</div><div><br></div><div><b>David: </b> Do you remember which system and machine(s) were used on the Kelly special?</div><div><br></div><div>Can you tell us more about the tape itself? Was it a first generation tape? Any splices? etc. Very hard to recover?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary for the <a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/">QuadVideotapeGroup.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">: </span></span></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div><br></div></div></span></span></span></span></div></span></div></body></html>