Looking for NBC peacock video

[batterymaker]

I just thought of something! Check out any of the Laugh-In shows on DVD--they have the bird in the beginning.

I think they were reissued about five years ago by Guthy-Renker.

[holmesuser01]

Originally Posted by batterymaker

I just thought of something! Check out any of the Laugh-In shows on DVD--they have the bird in the beginning.

I think they were reissued about five years ago by Guthy-Renker.

I worked for Guthy Renker back in the day. I did real time copies of the 1" originals to VHS. They had the bird.

[Pete Deksnis]

Originally Posted by holmesuser01

I worked for Guthy Renker back in the day. I did real time copies of the 1" originals to VHS.

A few years ago I acquired a Guthy-Renker DVD of the October 7, 1968 Laugh-In marked LGDVD001. Screen cap of the bird attached. [apparently not; seems i've maxed out at 3.3 Meg of pix upload; they're kidding, right!]


The consensus is that it was shot with RCA TK-41 cameras.

Can you comment on the color accuracy of the DVD? My interest is in early color programming that can be used as accurate source material for demonstrating the CT-100.


Pete

[ohohyodafarted]

I am having the same issue with photos Pete. I just started a Photobucket account. You can upload the photos to Photobucket FREE and then cut and paste the link they provide you into your AK posts and they will automatically upload from the photobucket site when someone loads your AK post.

I think the small space AK provides for photos is rather silly. You have to delete the photos from older posts in order to have photos in your recent posts. So when someone looks at an older post that had photos for a demo on how to build something, the photos are no longer there???? Thst is pretty goofy if you ask me.

Bob G.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Pete Deksnis

A few years ago I acquired a Guthy-Renker DVD of the October 7, 1968 Laugh-In marked LGDVD001. Screen cap of the bird attached. [apparently not; seems i've maxed out at 3.3 Meg of pix upload; they're kidding, right!]


The consensus is that it was shot with RCA TK-41 cameras.

Can you comment on the color accuracy of the DVD? My interest is in early color programming that can be used as accurate source material for demonstrating the CT-100.


Pete

I hope holmesuser01 can comment based on memory. I think the only other reference would be to any photographs of the set. The only natural color in that program was the talent's faces -everything else is unknown costume and "psychedelic" sets.

Regarding the peacock on these DVDs, its color is lousy but typical of the peacock film clip, apparently. The red and orange are practically identical, the yellow is very orange, and the green is has been turned into a very desaturated and dark cyan.

The video quality itself is decent, no visible tape banding or other defects.

[W.B.]

Originally Posted by Pete Deksnis

A few years ago I acquired a Guthy-Renker DVD of the October 7, 1968 Laugh-In marked LGDVD001. Screen cap of the bird attached. [apparently not; seems i've maxed out at 3.3 Meg of pix upload; they're kidding, right!]


The consensus is that it was shot with RCA TK-41 cameras.

Believe it. TK-41's continued to be used at NBC's New York and Burbank studios up to around mid-1969 when TK-44A's were broken in.

In the August 1969 edition of Broadcast Engineering, in an article about TV coverage of the moon landing, there was a picture of an NBC crew using a Norelco PC-70 camera, with "NBC Color," the NBC snake in a box - and the Norelco logo taken out, not unlike what CBS had done with RCA TK-10/30 and TK-11/31 cameras way back when.

[holmesuser01]

Originally Posted by Pete Deksnis

A few years ago I acquired a Guthy-Renker DVD of the October 7, 1968 Laugh-In marked LGDVD001. Screen cap of the bird attached. [apparently not; seems i've maxed out at 3.3 Meg of pix upload; they're kidding, right!]


The consensus is that it was shot with RCA TK-41 cameras.

Can you comment on the color accuracy of the DVD? My interest is in early color programming that can be used as accurate source material for demonstrating the CT-100.


Pete

Pete, The DVD line was totally different from our side of the plant.

I was rarely over there.