UCLA will screen the restoration of the earliest surviving color video tape (from May 22, 1958) . It will be shown on Friday July 25, 2008 at 730 PM in its Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum on Wilshire Blvd in Westwood (Los Angeles). Don Kent did the playback using Ed Reitan's modifications of the Ampex AVR-1 to play this earliest color tape format.
Billy Wilder Theater
Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024
FOUR PRESIDENTS ON TELEVISION
Dedication Day: NBC Washington Studios Dedication Ceremony
5/22/58. 30 min
DIR: Frank Slingland. WITH: Stuart Finley, David Brinkley, Ray Scherer.
Preserved from the oldest color videotapes known to have survived, this historic program documents the dedication ceremonies of WRC-TV, NBC's new studios in Washington, DC, the nation's first installation designed and built from the ground up for color television broadcasting. At the ceremonies President Dwight D. Eisenhower serves as chief speaker, his appearance marking the first color telecast of a president to originate from the nation's capitol. With the push of a button from NBC executive Robert Sarnoff, the black-and-white image miraculously turns into color.
The program will also present:
NBC News Special Report: "Nixon-Khrushchev Debate"
7/25/59. 20 min
At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow on July 24, 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev held an impromptu debate while standing before an exhibit of American color television equipment. Their lively exchange was recorded on color videotape and flown to the U.S. where it was aired on all three American networks the following day. The Archive presents this historic encounter as presented by NBC
See
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/screenings/screenings.html
under Preservationist's Choice.
Ed Reitan