RE: OT - He's just fine, right?SCTV

["Tom Harris" <tom(at)mercuryfilmworks.com>]

At the time, I was a stranger, not hero, to my kids….Those NBC 90 minuters were killers.Little known Canadian Fact….Bob and Doug’s Great White North was an emergency idea to fill 2 minutes of Canadian Content. Someone had screwed up the delivery requirements. So they made up this show, built the set, started drinking beer, recorded about 40 2minute skits…in one day. Most of those were gems. They tried to pick it up again, and they just weren’t as funny. Kinda like that game you made up with your friends when you a kid, and when you went back the next day, It just wasn’t the same…sponineity.

Thanks the “hero” bit…..52 with 3 grand daughters…..

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Woody Sherman
Sent: July 28, 2005 2:07 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: OT - He's just fine, right?SCTV

 

Tom,

 

You ARE a hero. I used to dream about making those 4 pass ADO effects for Rick Moranis's "Jerry Todd" Veejay act on SCTV, back in '80 when I was just starting out....

 

Plus, I used to keep a sandwich in my Duka-Richardson 4000 switcher then, just out of respect (regular watchers will get this!).

 

Woody Sherman

Thoughtstream Media

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From: Russ Grycza

To: DS(at)Softimage.COM

Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:44 PM

Subject: Re: OT - He's just fine, right?

 

I LOVED SCTV! I was working at an NBC station back in '80-'81. They carried it late on Friday nights, and I worked until sign-off, so we'd sit around in the news director's office eating pizza and drinking beer (Molson, of course) while it was on! (Ooops, hope the FCC isn't watching!)

 

Russ

 

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From: Tom Harris

To: DS(at)Softimage.COM

Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:18 PM

Subject: RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

 

I spent a few years running RA 4000(Look it up at the museum) from ampex, it could run 3 avr1’s (quads)…we edited a show called SCTV on it. We got paper logs from ¾ inch offline and it would take a week to online it……circa 1979…..

Tom (Grandpa) Harris

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Chasteen, Howard
Sent: July 27, 2005 8:31 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

 

Here is the EECO front panel. this is a 900. We had the older model.

 

http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/eeco/eeco.html

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Mark Rachall
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:07 AM
To: 'DS(at)Softimage.COM'
Subject: RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

I am not familiar with the term EECO but I may have used one. I do remember the quad days, when the two inch machine took up an entire room and it took two engineers and an editor to complete an edit. We told the clients that the horizontal phase shifts were special effects and upped the rates J

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Chasteen, Howard
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:53 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

 

I began editing with old EECO controllers and strange color/horizontal shifts from the beginning to last frames.

 

EECO invented the first practical electronic video tape editing system that controlled the decks remotely and displayed the TC on big Nixie tube displays.

 

When you mention EECO and get no or few responses it must means you are so phenomenally young and cutting edge that no one has heard of you yet :-))) Just give it time;-)

 

Famous Howard

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Mark Rachall
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:48 PM
To: 'DS(at)Softimage.COM'
Subject: RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

Yes Howard, you can be famous too J

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Chasteen, Howard
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:30 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

 

Hey I ran an EECO! Does that make me famous??? Lots of Nixie tubes. Color horizontal phase hell on old quad decks!

 

Howard

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Jim Fink
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:13 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: OT - He's just fine, right?

hmm... I don't resemble the famous part..
but does ... The West End Still Rock Dude ?

now moved to the West End of Chapel Hill....
where are you mark...?
j


Mark Rachall wrote:

Hey, are you the famous Jim fink that used to work and ampex ace editor in

Dallas?

Mark O. Rachall

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of

Jim Fink

Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:50 PM

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Subject: Re: OT - He's just fine, right?

oh, so that was friday.

now I recall how I felt too, thanks.

vamooshnya

love it..

j

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