Re: [ARSCLIST] NASA

[Robert Hodge <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

I realise the NTSC tapes weren't being addressed, it just seems to me
that ANY magnetic tape or sound recording- especiailly when realtive to
the history of the U. S. and especially when supported by taxpayers
dollars - should be held at the LOC. Even if they themselves can't play
them, then at least they would stand a better chance of being preserved
and their whereabouts known..
At least that is my experience with L.O.C. Motion  Picture Dept. 

Bob       

>>> tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 8/15/2006 4:31 PM >>>
Hi Bob:

The issue is that NASA recorded the video in a proprietary format and
fed a converted, lower-quality 
NTSC video signal to the networks. The instrumentation tapes contain
the high-quality video stream. 
Those tapes are lost. Richard Hess posted a link to a very detailed
report about this a couple weeks 
ago. Search back and you'll find much more accurate details than were
in the dumbed-down mainstream 
media stories. There was a link to a PDF about the search so far. Those
tapes definitely appear 
lost.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Hodge" <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>
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I lost the link about the lost NASA tape, but has anyone at NASA
considered  asking the Library Of 
Congress Motion Picture and Sound division for the videotape ?
 They should have it if anyone should.

Bob Hodge

>>> loujudson@xxxxxxx 8/15/2006 2:49 PM >>>
a trivial part of me would love to know who the 'let and what the film
were... to file in the useless but interesting part of the brain,
though that part is too large already! Wonder what her internal drama
was on that night! Got jilted, hated her filmed self, who knows
what...

<L>

Lou Judson * Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Robert Hodge wrote:

> A True Story Of Similar Tone...
>
> A film starlet whose name escapes me presently had borrowed a 35 mm
> nitrate print of one of her films from the studio  to show at one of
> her
> parties and when she was through with it, threw the whole print in
the
> ocean..
>
> That print was the only surviving print left of that title.
>
> Amazing.....
>
> R.Hodge