Videotape department at KTTV Los Angeles - August 1979
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This video was shot in the videotape department at KTTV-TV Los Angeles in August 1979. Apologies for the poor camerawork and technical quality shot with my new (1979 vintage) Panasonic consumer-grade video camera and videocassette recorder, a rarity in the 1970’s. The camera used a single tube vidicon imager, prone to burn-in, connected by a cable to a heavy "portable" VHS videotape recorder. Audio on this tape is recorded at a very low level for reasons unknown. As you can see, my skills as a novice cameraman were not great, but this look inside the halls of Metromedia Square probably doesn't exist anywhere else. Those of us who worked there will never forget the sterile windowless basement hallways graced by artwork of dubious beauty.
This was interesting to watch, I was born in August of '79. It felt like I was peering into a moment in time when I might have been a newborn baby in my mother's arms just a few miles away.
So interesting. I just bought a tube camera from 1981, amazing how much light they need.
I am assuming these are editing suites that you are showing us? I took the time to look up the history of KTTV and Metromedia Square. All I can say is wow, a lot of television history happened in that building. It's a shame that it no longer exists.
The editing suites and videotape department. At the time, all of Norman Lear's successful sitcoms including "All in the Family" were produced at Metromedia Square. Lear had so many series on the air he outgrew his home at CBS Television City, and moved to Metromedia Square which had enough soundstages and facilities to handle all his shows. Years later in the 1990's, "In Living Color" was taped at the same facility and I edited the series there.
Yes I read that about Norman Lear having so many shows produced there and In Living Color. It's hard to imagine how huge that place must have been to have so many shows being made there at the same time. I studied Television and film production in college but lost interest about six months before graduation. I kept my toes wet for years working at local radio stations and eventually being a Master Control Operator at a small independent TV station in NH. All was done part time while I had a real job that paid the bills. I've been totally out of it for 20 years.
I worked in the Newroom early 80's but, strangely, never went exploring through Metromedia Square. I'd park in the lower lot, walk up to the loading dock and then across the alley to Stage 1. Or was it 2? I forget. I did sneak over to Two Close for Comfort and Jeopardy when they taped across the hall.
August '79, I was 1 year old!
This is fascinating to look at. Amazing to think that is a whole 42 years ago. I was born 3 years prior. :)
Wow!
Why did those trailing blobs of negative colour happen with those cameras? I’d love to be able to recreate them
I can take a wild guess your Panasonic camera was a WV-3000 or WV-3030 colour striped vidicon tube camera or something of that model range as the picture characteristics are a striking resemblance to my National Panasonic WV-3030N camera, here's a video I shot in 2010 on that camera ua-cam.com/video/rt54Im12E6s/v-deo.html the colour tones are very yellow-green casted and the reds are magenta-ish
Weren't those RCA TK-27 film chains in one of the rooms?
Yep
Wonderful to see. I worked at NWS Channel 9 , Adelaide, Australia from 1978 to 2010 in Sound and Videotape. Just like the good old days ! Did you have an Ampex ACR for commercial playout?
You went past my room at first (next door to online) but nobody home. Then you let Krupnik in??