Comments on: Peter Croft reports on the end of the videotape era. http://watvhistory.com/2009/09/peter-croft-reports-on-the-end-of-the-videotape-era/ History of Western Australia's Television Industry Mon, 18 Jul 2022 03:09:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: John Slater http://watvhistory.com/2009/09/peter-croft-reports-on-the-end-of-the-videotape-era/comment-page-1/#comment-27068 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:44:08 +0000 http://watvhistory.com/2009/09/peter-croft-reports-on-the-end-of-the-videotape-era/#comment-27068 Hi Peter loved your petapixel post, we had the good ole days!

]]> By: John Carusi http://watvhistory.com/2009/09/peter-croft-reports-on-the-end-of-the-videotape-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1642 Thu, 06 May 2010 15:00:11 +0000 http://watvhistory.com/2009/09/peter-croft-reports-on-the-end-of-the-videotape-era/#comment-1642 Hello, I’ve found the WA TV History site very fascinating, as with the exhibition staged in Fremantle late last year.

One question I forgot to ask, and I hope someone here might help me answer it: now with the 2″ Ampex machines removed from the likes of TVW7, how do they access archival analogue colour or monochrome footage? Did they (that includes the other channels here) do a batch copy of those obsolescent formats onto another more current format, either in their entirety or by keeping highlights and wiping the rest? Or do they maintain all the archives in their original formats (2″, 1″, BetaSP, etc) and send the tapes to an outside copying service and digitise selections on demand? And is it a similar story with telecine items on 16mm film?

I’m curious how they would do this if they have no 2″ machines ready at their disposal whenever they do highlights featuring archival footage, say when background is needed or if someone’s died, that are required at short order.

Many Thanks—again, marvellous work here folks!
John Carusi

P.S. When watching the TVW7 50th Anniversary Special, when they were discussing the changeover to colour in 1975, they featured just a mono photo of Charles Court turning on the colour at midnight (I’ve seen a colour photo of the same event, different vantage point), but was that event either live to air but not recorded, or filed under “missing…believed wiped”? Aunty would not have let that happen to Aunty Jack’s brilliant take on that and TVW’s then-sister station, SAS10, recorded their switch-on and features their own then-premier, Don Dunstan, flicking a switch on a control board.

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