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Hi,
I was very pleased that all can now see this historic videotape. This is the earliest known surviving 2-inch color videotape.
The tape was restored by Don Kent and Ed Reitan (myself) under the auspices of the UCLA Film and Television Archive (Dan Einstein). We used the process I developed, during the "Evening with Fred Astaire" restoration, for playing the earliest color recordings, . The recordings used a color recording process developed by RCA Labs. RCA Labs created the first Color videotape recorder by making significant modifications to a baseline Ampex b&w Videotape recorder. The RCA Labs process preceded the eventually adopted "Low Band Color" standard. My modification involved 10 boards in an AMPEX AVR-1 (the greatest 2-inch recorder ).
It was a joy to see the gorgeous color that the TK-41 camera and TK-26 slide camera could produce - it looks like Technicolor. As Sarnoff said "We want everyone in the world to see America in its true and natural colors".
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10-14-2009, 01:37 PM
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