Video - Going Mobile

Greetings fellow equipment hoarders, old-timers, and young history students!,

actors that can look like hippies and old dressed people holding apparatus and narrating, camera people, lighting, composers, etc etc etc.

We are shooting a video on

HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF VTRs/ VCRs

Here is what we need....

- Photos of you in olden times using the equipment (or film of video footage showing you at it) ( it is easier to clear rights on a photo that someone you now is in rather than a cool photo you manage to buy of ebay..)

- Any photos that you have done whereas the equipment is taken apart showing views internally form all angles ( yea yea we can tear ours apart but why re-invent is not needed?)

- Narratives to use as voice-overs from "those that used the stuff"

- I would love to find some of the 16 mm film during Dan Berrigan's Danbury prison release... We have several tapes shot from the portapack... BUT I would live to have some film showing this guy in action that was running the 3400!

- We will do a real short introduction on the start of tape technology just to introduce the viewer but the purpose of this production will be to emphasize the history of the Portable Unit.

- Also one area that will receive some treatment is the switch over from 16 mm film such as Cinema products CP16 and Yoder modified Bach Auricons, again we will not dwell on it but believe it needs to be covered. (does anyone still have their CP 16 and Iron Maiden chest mount?)

This project will also result in a pictorial section on the museums website as well.

It is good to be back on a history project! We took a short detour to learn to shoot the news edit some video... gather some friends that are even better at it than I am ( although I did manage to pick up a regional news Emmy(R) Award last year see http://www.glendale dailyplanet. com/2007_ rocky_mtn_ emmy(r)_awards. htm )

Anyone that wishes to be involved I this from the resource or crew or ?? any capacity is welcome. It will be fun and a way of leaving a record for the future.

We probably need to take into account early mobile truck contained video also in the Intro

And of course at the end flash forward current mobile streaming handheld devices...

Awards? Accolades and Credits?

People participating will be awarded such as we acquire them Money? Doubt this will be a money-maker.... but... it needs to be done.

Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC

See the Museum's Web Site at www.smecc.org

We are always looking for items to add to the museum's display and ref. library - please advise if you have anything we can use.

Coury House / SMECC
5802 W. Palmaire Ave. Phone 623-435-1522
Glendale Az 85301 USA