What a heavenly place to work. Did you notice how everyone is happy, 
smiling, everything works on time. No one yells or curses. No one 
smokes. Everybody is just so cheerful and busy working. And all the 
babes are blonds. I wanna see them try to get this one made today.
Shai
בתאריך 08/08/12 9:57 AM, ציטוט Corey Bailey:
> Hi Tom,
>
> The console looks like an early MCI JH400 series. I've never seen the 24
> track, it looks custom built.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Corey
> Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
>
> <snip>
>> Here's another look at AAV, the video montage from the grand opening gala:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwZWLPpcFM
>> this one features heavy use of the Rutt-Etra video synthesizer, which was
>> a new toy back then.
>> By the way, can anyone positively identify the recording console and
>> 24-track tape machine types?
>> That's an Ampex AG-440B 4-track in the small production studio.
>>
>> Back squarely on-topic, AAV was involved in many of the typical mid-70's
>> corporate and entertainment
>> multi-media productions. I think that era was pretty much the heyday of
>> that sort of thing,
>> worldwide.
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Schroth" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 1:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] archiving slide-tape shows (was voca-film
>> technology)
>>
>>
>>> Hi Mike:
>>>
>>> No, Unfortunately the Eastman House is not doing anything regarding
>>> archiving these types of
>>> programs. I think for several very understandable reasons:
>>>
>>> A huge percentage of these programs were proprietary - used for huge
>>> sales meetings and trade
>>> shows to release new product lines to sales people within the company or
>>> distributors. Like Apple
>>> releasing the first Macintosh with a program called "Blue Busters" (a
>>> takeoff on Ghost Busters -
>>> Apple busting "Big Blue" aka IBM), or Saab releasing the new (back then)
>>> 900 line, titled "Saab
>>> 900". Since many of the really big budget shows were for corporate
>>> presentation, it would be tough
>>> to get companies to release these privately owned programs.
>>>
>>> How many people are really interested in preserving them? I for one
>>> would be, but I'm in the small
>>> minority. There is not a lot of money to be recouped from trying to
>>> preserve a multi-image slide
>>> presentation. The funds at many institutions are very tight. When money
>>> does become available it
>>> is most often used for preservation of high-brow or more well-known
>>> media that a large percentage
>>> or people can identify with, know about, and would be interested in
>>> helping to support, or paying
>>> money to see, or is viewed by people as a more valuable or important
>>> asset.
>>>
>>> How do you recreate a multi-image program digitally and project it with
>>> the same effect, the look
>>> would really not be the same. Also, part of the wonder of watching a
>>> multi-image slide
>>> presentation is watching all those projectors firing away, hearing the
>>> clicking of the advancing
>>> slides and just shaking your head thinking how mad it was that it even
>>> worked.
>>>
>>> The few programs of note that would be worth taking a stab at
>>> resurrecting and preserving are in
>>> rough shape. I've talked to many of the old "well known" producers and
>>> owners of the past large
>>> production companies. The few shows they have kept are stored in garages
>>> and old warehouses.
>>> Mothballed away because they were so significant at the time and cost so
>>> much to produce that the
>>> people who produced them, loved them, and could not see throwing them
>>> out. But in most cases they
>>> did not store them properly. Fading and mold would be just a couple of
>>> the issues facing poorly
>>> stored slides.
>>>
>>> Richard mentions "The New York Experience". I remember seeing this
>>> program with my dad, then going
>>> back to see the projectors all firing away and watched in wonder. My dad
>>> was with Kodak for 35
>>> years in the motion picture/audiovisual division and worked with people
>>> who produced such
>>> programs. Also Richard mentioned some great presentations used at
>>> National Parks. Kodak also
>>> produced many widescreen multi-image programs that were glorious wonders
>>> of photography and took
>>> you all over the world. These were used as promotional image pieces and
>>> toured the globe helping
>>> to promote Kodak. Donna Lawrence productions produced an amazing 360
>>> degree slide presentation
>>> that ran as a fixed display for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
>>> There was even a 24
>>> projector show that ran as a fixed display on the Queen Elizabeth II (I
>>> have one of the slide
>>> projectors taken from the ship before the Cunard line retired her). All
>>> of these are noteworthy
>>> and would be worth preservation, but they were either fixed displays or
>>> touring displays. Even if
>>> a working copy was available, the slides got to a point of being so
>>> faded that they would be hard
>>> to bring back to their former full-color glory without a lot of work.
>>> And I wonder how many
>>> surviving audio tapes used to run the programs would have been in even
>>> decent shape.
>>>
>>> AMI - the Association for Multi-Image, which I was a member of for many
>>> years before it went
>>> defunct, had a national competition every year. Shows from all over the
>>> world were submitted. Any
>>> shows that won awards had Ariel Image transfers made of them to share
>>> with anyone in the AMI
>>> community who wanted to rent them out. This would be worth investigating
>>> to see who were the
>>> leaders of the organization prior to closing up shop, and who had the
>>> tape masters of the shows.
>>> Could they be had and if so, make arrangements to get them converted to
>>> digital format. At least
>>> the stories and the content could be saved. Several years back at my
>>> 25th reunion, there was talk
>>> of doing just that, but everyone got busy and nothing became of it. I'd
>>> still think I'd like to
>>> pursue this and should. I'm glad this posting came about so that I can
>>> again put this up a front
>>> burner.
>>>
>>> As a side note, many of these shows could be classified as moving image
>>> presentations. Many times
>>> we used a fat back that held a large roll of 35mm slide film on a Nikon
>>> 35mm still camera with a
>>> motor drive, to shoot moving image sequences. When you cycle these
>>> sequences these through 15 or
>>> more slide projectors - the likeness of motion picture film movement is
>>> close, with a different
>>> effect, but still amazing (and much cheaper than hiring a film crew and
>>> the equipment).
>>>
>>> I have a collection of these shows that I will post on Vimeo sometime in
>>> the next week or so for
>>> anyone that is interested. They were originally mastered on 1", then
>>> dubbed down to 3/4"-U. Copies
>>> were made and sent out on 3/4"-U dubs. I quickly copied these to VHS
>>> whenever they came in - so
>>> the quality is far from perfect, but it gives you at least an idea of
>>> how neat these shows really
>>> were.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> John Schroth
>>> Media Transfer Service, LLC
>>>
>>> On 8/6/2012 1:39 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>>> From: John Schroth <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>
>>>>> I majored in Multi-image slide presentation at RIT over 25 years ago.
>>>>> They had a core-curriculum in Multi-Image slide production, the only
>>>>> one
>>>>> like it in country at the time.
>>>> Wow!  In this thread we have really hit on a nearly forgotten format
>>>> for
>>>> archiving, and your info and expertise is valuable.  Is Eastman House
>>>> doing anything on this?  I think this topic is worthy of an ARSC
>>>> Conference presentation -- not sure if the Moving Image organizations
>>>> are interested in these non-moving image presentations.  I remember the
>>>> ones I've seen being very impressive -- but every time a movie was
>>>> inserted, the combination of the noticeably lower resolution and the
>>>> disruption of looking at lengthy-held still images reduced the effect.
>>>> These programs could be reproduced with the superior HDTV projection
>>>> now
>>>> available, using multiple projectors and screens of course.  There
>>>> should be an effort to do it NOW while we still have people like you
>>>> that remember the equipment and programming so it can be converted to
>>>> computer controlling.
>>>>
>>>> Mike Biel  [log in to unmask]
>>>>
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