RIP Reid, those were the days when stunts bore so much more risk. You can see how much he enjoyed performing from this early age. This footage is priceless for so many reasons. If you still have cassettes I'd be proud to archive more.
That's not a lot of respect! They didn't used to use bugs at all, or maybe just a few seconds. Not respect for their own product, as my grandpa used to say.
The 1-inch Type C VTR was invented by both Ampex and Sony in 1976; but, production models would really not be sold until 1977/78. Then, there is a slow rate of adoption. Only the biggest stations could afford to buy the latest gear at the moment of release. I didn't see 1-inch VTRs in action until 1981, and only when I flew to L.A. to do some post - 2-inch VTRs were still everywhere... from their birth in 1956 thru 1985. Some smaller stations still used them until 1991/92.
I'm impressed. You took it off the air onto a Beta machine. I always thought Beta had a far superior picture to VHS, alas beta came in second. Then you dubbed it to VHS? Wow, I think the picture is pretty amazing, considering what we're watching. Thanks for posting this. Funny thing is, these guys are probably just a couple of years younger than I am... so I'm guessing they'd be in their late 50's by now! Amazing! I was sorry to hear about the kid who was killed. I bet he'd have gone far. Love watching the technology of yesteryear. When I first got into TV, this is what it looked like. Far better than just computer screens they work with now. They missed all the fun!
Wow! Talk about a "Blast from The Past". Hadn't seen Studio See or heard anything about it in over 40 years. I was 6, maybe 7 yrs old sitting on my Grandma's living room floor watching this.
Keoni, 01:04 You never saw a poor quality video. My VHS It-s a good example PALM Frankenstein system tv analog in Brazil until 2007 - 2016 transition time to shut off analog system tv inside my country. 2007 first time digital tv terrestrial, 2016 last year to switch off analog system network tv signal.
Working for local tv station from 1988-97 they were still using most of this equipment. I have back problems from carrying the 3/4 record decks while shooting news. It was horrible and unreliable and you were blamed for its instability if something went wrong with those decks.Those 2 inch machines were still around in early 2000s at stations I worked. I used to edit 3/4 as well.
love your video and the content however I have a problem with someone talking to me about video editing when they clearly have not taken time to edit the audio
The audio on this shave-down edit is in PERFECT SYNC as edited, and as evidenced when I did the same upload to my Vimeo account. At the time, RU-vid and their after-upload compression must have done something so the audio fell out of sync. I apologize for the lip-sync issue, but YTube won't let me re-attempt the upload here without losing the comments and view counts.
Does anybody out there know how to find a listing of PBS shows that played during the early to mid seventies in the afternoon/evening hours. I watched a station out of Tallahassee back then. There are two shows in particular that I have never been able to find out anything about. One of them I think I have the title pinned down. The other I will know by a description of it since I never knew the title. I was in elementary school during these years and don't remember many details. Thanks a bunch!
I don't know about your PBS station, but in Hawai'i where I watched, the PBS station was also leased by the State's Department of Education, and aired all in-school educational programs during the day (since at the time, VCRs weren't common, and of course, there was no Internet. Schools would of course show 16mm films that teachers would order from a central library and borrow, but a lot of programs for 4th thru 7th graders came via the PBS station). What this means is that after school, from 1:30pm~4pm, the station would often air the programs in advance as 'teacher previews,' and thus print these programs in an educational guide distributed to all school teachers. I kept a few of those guides, listing the programs. If you are speaking of these type of "ETV" programs (one example might be an acclaimed psychological series called "Inside/OUT" ru-vid.com/group/PLllZn0B_ivULC4zmD798Q1K3zFV51RNjh ) - then I may be able to help in the future when I retrieve those guides.
@@KeoniFilmTV Thanks for the response. It was done differently here in the panhandle of Florida. PBS was not connected in any way with public schools here. Very interesting how it was for you.
Omg step up from 3/4? We woukd NEVER EVER do that in broadcast colors are horrible and time base is terrible. They needed an AMPEX 3000 portable quad. I work on every machine Ampex made. There is simply no substitute for quad. I think it was the best format
3/4-inch VTRs back then did not have SMPTE time code, and later it was a very expensive OPTION that Sony made available; and even then, studio 3/4-inch decks did not access that time code except on a linear audio track, which would have taken away 1 of only 2 tracks of sound. So the 3/4-inch bump-up added the timecode after-the-fact. But also, note the decks they used: Sony VO models; (VideO) -- the "Broadcast" division was not yet invented where top-of-line BVU edit-controllable decks were made (BVU-200, for example). So to have complete, frame-accurate CONTROL of a VTR along with SMPTE timecode, they HAD TO bump up to a controllable 2-inch machine. -keoni.
WOW! This truly takes me back to the simplest time in my life. When I was a kid, I used to watch PBS religiously. From Sesame Street to Vegetable Soup to Zoom to this particular show. IMHO, PBS had a wider variety of educational shows back in those days. Nowadays, IMHO, there isn't much variety anymore. Back then, PBS had educational shows to please particular groups of people and even programs where you could discuss what one would do in a situation, such as Inside/Out, Self Incorporated and a few others. I also used to watch Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and The Electric Company. I also remember other possibly long forgotten PBS shows, such as Our Modern Language and Under the Blue Umbrella. I also remember Truly American, The Letter People, The Song Bag, Let's All Sing a Song, Today, Cover to Cover, The Word Shop, All About You, Clyde Frog, Vision On, and Gather 'Round. It makes me wish that I could transform myself back into being a kid again and go back in time to watch these wonderful PBS shows again. Thanks for sharing and bringing back many wonderful childhood memories.
Does anyone know the name of the pbs show that showed an outline of the state of South Carolina forming in the intro while kids sang the theme? I saw it around 1981.
"Studio See" producer Jayne Adair, seen at 1:21 of this video, later went on to work for various TV stations in the Pittsburgh area, both commercial and non-commercial, in various managment capacities, and later headed up a Pittsburgh area arts organization.
I reached out to her just before she retired, and she was gracious in taking her valuable time to respond to me! I wonder if any of the crew/editors are alive and well? I looked-up to them. They had SMPTE "Timecode," which most local TV stations in smaller markets couldn't afford - I learned to edit "manually."
They could be trying to maintain "4:3" safe mode; for those homes and other multi-channels that are not in HD with older TV screens. If you keep titles and most "action" on the screen in the 4:3 near-square of TV before it went 16:9, you don't need to force the picture into letterbox. Film aficionados love letterbox as it maintains the integrity of the feature film's director, D.P. and editor; but viewers at home hate the black bars and 'smaller' pic. If your graphics are on the far edges left/right in a 16:9 and you don't letterbox it for 4:3 viewers, then you get things chopped-off, which is more obvious with text and graphics than with just the framing of a character standing and talking.
It's great to see the old PBS ID. I don't remember Studio See. And now I work for PBS. AVID stands for "All Video Is Dead." That's what we call it here. We've had problems with AVID. Great presentation of the behind-the-scenes look of Studio See. I wish shows like this were still around.
Great reply Bob. When Akio Morita (founder of Sony) rolled out D1 videotape in 1986, the first, real-time (no waiting for renders) digital video/audio format, I saw it as the beginning of what we are doing today, but honestly I never thought a "home computer" would ever have the memory, speed, processing power and storage to do 'broadcast-quality' video let alone 2K, 4K, 8K resolutions as we are pushing today. I have collected EVERY major video format in an apartment, and plan to donate it to the Motion Picture Academy (AMPAS) for their museum where the public can see all the machines light-up.
I was 15 years old when this show was made, dont remember seeing it then, but I did watch PBS(KCTS Seattle) shows like Nova, and other specials and youth oriented stuff. I loved the skateboard scene at 02:54 I was a hardcore skateboarder then, I did handstands and skated with friends similar to the kids, who would of been my age. Cool memories.
Cool story - thanks for watching and taking the time to write! Even though the scene is shot on video and not film -- thus giving it a soap-opera look and losing some dramatic effect -- it is a credit to the directors, DP and editors for making it look so amazingly real when Reid hits the car; it doesn't look fake/tacky. They were really talented artists -- the show was VERY high quality and the pictures looked and edited amazingly, in spite of the lousy VHS quality here. My VIMEO version of this doesn't have the lip-sync issue that this RU-vid version has.
It costs less than 1 cup of coffee, per person, per year, to fund PBS as it stands now. Imagine if the President was a visionary LEADER and not a politician, and they gave PBS the equivalent of a SUBWAY 12-inch sandwich lunch, just one, just once per year, per person. Your pledge drives would disappear. I've been in this business ever since shows like this made me want to write, direct, edit, run a camera -- so I know that film/tv production with high production values is very expensive to produce, and to broadcast it, even more so. Thank you for your comment. -keoni tyler, from Honolulu to Hollywood.
I really miss shows like this. When I was a kid, I'd watch PBS every day after school. I don't remember this show, but I loved 3-2-1 contact. I would have watched this show, too, and soaked it all in. I came here to see what Reid Rondell looked like because I've been reading Rob Lowe's book. It's a shame there aren't any pictures of him online, as though he didn't really exist somehow. He was a cute kid! He died doing what he loved - may he rest in peace. Anyway, thanks for uploading this. I enjoyed watching it. :)
Another very cool show -- making science cool with no apologies! Luckily there are several "3-2-1 Contact" clips/episodes on RU-vid. #NostalgiaRocks Also cool that you'd find this because of Reid Rondell #R.I.P.
Do you happen to have any more episodes? I would love to see the entire intro. I also remember the end credits tune was pretty cool variation on the theme.
Only because Sony was too 'greedy' with the format. It had the much better picture quality (see Betamax ED - Extended Definition). In the late 70s/early 80s, most Betamax models were Sonys with $1200 price tags -- Panasonic/JVC let others make VHS, so the store would have 12 different companies making various models, with $899 avg. prices. Just like Mac vs. PC, where only Apple makes Macs and thus they are more expensive -- but have the better, elegant OS/quality, VHS reigned because of price.
genial este video ,soy editor de video, trabajo en el sur de argentina y ver esot para mi es buenisim, muestralacomo se trabajaba antes y ayuda mucho a los que ahora cruzan por una era digital plena, saludos desd CHUBUT, COMODORO RIVADAVIA, ARGENTINA
