The clips from the Oklahoma-Texas game make me recall my college journalism professor James Tidwell (1948-2013), a passionate Sooner fan, great believer in a free press, and a fine person. He taught me more than I can quantify. I first took classes from him in 1979 in my home state of Indiana. He had covered sports during his years in his native Oklahoma, and he may have written about this ‘72 game. His heart was in it as a fan - of that there is no doubt! I miss professor Tidwell.
Idk why, but this reel is making me so happy. The ads are so earnest, so serious, yet sometimes quirky. The lack of cynicism is palpable and enjoyable. Thanks so much for posting.
48:37 Thank you for the live recording of the 1972 ALCS with the late great Vida Blue and the Oakland A’s winning the pennant on their way to the first of three consecutive World Series wins.
NBC was still using TK-41s in their Washington studios until at least '73. (There's a WRC-TV newscast from that year where they can be seen in the background.) I recall reading that ABC Sports had a backup mobile unit with TK-41s through 1978! Keep in mind that ABC ordered some of the last ones RCA built around '66. (Leonard Goldenson said the conversion to color nearly bankrupted ABC, but they had no choice but to get with the times.) Even though the tech was nearly 20 years old in 1972, the specific cameras were probably only a third of that. I would love to know when the last TK-41s were retired from regular daily use and where it was at. (Not counting ones that had been donated to a college or ABC's backup truck.)
The Sony AV-5000 an interesting machine. You would wonder if JVC was the one that burned Sony by not adopting the AV-5000 color system into the EIAJ standard. (Seems your drum is getting sticky about a 1/3 into your tape. ;)
The golden age of tv announcer voiceovers. Way before Donald Sutherland and Peter Coyote cornered the market. ;). I wonder if these early announcer guys went to Japan to do a lost in translation gig?
VO: 18:25 Dan Ingram; 18:13 Eddie Barth; 33:00 Tom Bosley 1:59 John Erwin with an interesting on-camera appearance. 56:44 Rare on-camera appearance by Karl Weber, one of the all-time great voice-over talents.
