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Posted by Ed Mullen on 11/29/07 00:33
Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Ed Mullen wrote:
>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>> Ed Mullen wrote:
>>>> "Farm, Home and Garden" might have been pretty low-brow fare but,
>>>> dammit! I framed those shots just great! ;-)
>>> :) My first paid day in TV was as a Master Control Director for a PBS
>>> affiliate, being in at six AM or something, on some days, which was
>>> horrible in winter. I've seen more Sesame Street than you and four of
>>> your friends combined, because I put them on the air. :)
>> I doubt it! :-) My stint was at the PBS affiliate at Penn State U.,
>> WPSX-TV. We called them "Duty Directors" and I did that for a brief
>> while. But there was also so much down time between production that we
>> spent a lot of time just watching the network feeds of shows we were
>> recording for later broadcast. so, yeah, lots of Sesame St. and
>
> Did you do sneakernet? Going down to the bus station for programs
> coming to you on 2" tape? :)
LOL. Yes! Quad tapes! Some of my earliest memories are of editing
shows together using two (or three) quad machines "loosely" synchronized
(pre SMPTE time code) by an RCA TEP (Tape Editing Programmer). And a
video tech with arms stretched wide to try and hit the Start buttons on
both machines (playback and record) at the same time. In fact, I
remember Clarence McCracken doing that with a cigarette and an inch of
ash dangling from his lips. Oh, the kids these days have no idea! <g>
And, I guess, thank God!
>
>> Electric Co. The most disconcerting experience was one morning about 7
>
> And the ever popular...
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> Come on and zoom zoom zoom-a zoom.
>
>> AM as I sat at the production-control audio console, nursing my first
>> cup of coffee after a /very/ late night, I glanced up at the 20" Conrac
>> network monitor to view a Cesarean section being performed, close ups
>> and all. It did /nothing/ to help the hangover.
>
> Ugh. I'll bet not. An eye-opener, though. :)
It was, although, a Bloody Mary would have been a lot more welcome!
>
> This post was brought to you by the letters B and R, and the number 8.
>
ROFLMAO!!! The worst was the taxi driver in the Electric Company street
sequence that ran once every show for a year or more. First time I saw
him I went: "Holy crap! That's me!!!" Of course, when I asked my
co-workers they didn't see it, just saw the long hair, the long beard,
etc. and said: Oh, he doesn't look anything like you, Ed! Still
freaked me out. they say everyone has a twin out there somewhere.
Well, that taxi driver in the early 70s in NYC was mine!
Now, if I can just find my long-last twin brother some 30 years later
.... Ah, he's probably a retired CEO of some Fortune 500 company. :-D
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