Earliest surviving B&W videotape recording

[Aussie Bloke]

G'day all. A few years back I watched in my video course class at TAFE college a documentary on video recording which was part of the Tim Hunkin "Secret Life Of Machines" series and they showed an extremely rare piece of video footage from the mid 50s which they say is the earliest surviving Ampex B&W videotape recording which I assume dates around 1956 or 1957. This footage appears to be of the Hoover Dam shot by a cameraman standing on the OB van while the van is in motion.

I've plucked it off that show and uploaded the 13 second clip to YouTube http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=uOcEq9LzjxM .

Anyways I really want to somehow get a hold of the full footage of this recording and I need some leads so I was wondering if anyone here can identify this footage and possibly the date of recording?

Cheers
Troy

[vinyldavid]

Originally Posted by Aussie Bloke

G'day all. A few years back I watched in my video course class at TAFE college a documentary on video recording which was part of the Tim Hunkin "Secret Life Of Machines" series and they showed an extremely rare piece of video footage from the mid 50s which they say is the earliest surviving Ampex B&W videotape recording which I assume dates around 1956 or 1957. This footage appears to be of the Hoover Dam shot by a cameraman standing on the OB van while the van is in motion.

I've plucked it off that show and uploaded the 13 second clip to YouTube http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=uOcEq9LzjxM .

Anyways I really want to somehow get a hold of the full footage of this recording and I need some leads so I was wondering if anyone here can identify this footage and possibly the date of recording?

Cheers
Troy

What about contacting Tim Hunkin? I know that he is still alive because on another video (Seblington's Tonschreiber), a response to that prompted Seblington to contact Mr. Hunkin, and apparently, he knows something of the Tonschreiber, and if he knew of that, some fuzzy logic follows that he could get hold of the full footage of that......he has a website and here is the link:

http://www.timhunkin.com/

[Aussie Bloke]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've sent Tim an email and await his reply.

[charliesheen]

do any of you guys know of anyone around la ca that has a 2in player,i got some old footage of my dad on one of dick clarks show from 1973 that i want to see.

[Indian Head]

Originally Posted by charliesheen

do any of you guys know of anyone around la ca that has a 2in player,i got some old footage of my dad on one of dick clarks show from 1973 that i want to see.

This guy is a bit north of you, but he seems to know his stuff:

http://www.antiquevideo.com/