Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Six weeks was for American intelligence to figure out what the heck was going on. The building I'm in on the Fort MacArhtur Upper Reservation in San Pedro was actually used to review the film intelligence during the later part of the Viet Nam War. If those walls could only talk, and not just the toilets. S. Dimitrov > From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc@www.sonc.com> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:56:50 -0600 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists now 60 minutes > > Sorry Rolfe, you lose. The time from shoot to air in those days from the > Saigon Bureau was two days. Sixty Minutes was the first real TV News > Magazine because they insisted on timely presentation. > > I wasn't there, but have know a few News shooters who worked there. It only > takes 30 minutes from dry to dry to run Ektachrome though, and even if they > were shooting color neg, we're still talking under two hours to get a print. > > I'm pretty sure they ahd a film processor in the Saigon Bureau, and if the > piece were being voiced by Ed, he would have probably assembled the entire > package before it went to the states. It is possible that he sent the tracks > along with the film. We usta cut voice-overs on the sound-on-film so the > ambience would match the stand-ups. > > Sonny > > > >> Marc, >> >> With all due respect, this is just a load of crap. >> >> Let's see, the film needed to get back to Saigon, then flown out to >> Hong Kong or Tokyo for processing. >> >> Then on to New York for editing and scripting, a process that >> normally takes several weeks, certainly it did during the period in >> question. Then the finished piece had to be slotted into a broadcast, >> probably not the very next one either. >> >> I'd guess six weeks minimum between when the film was shot and when >> it showed up on Sixty Minutes, and it was probably a lot longer than >> that. >> >> Rolfe >> >> -- >> Rolfe Tessem >> Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. >> rolfe@ldp.com >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html