| # | Author | Message |
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| dshyates
Sun 6/1/2008 2:05p | As far as tape vaults go, I would imagine that these are the original edited masters. Even your dumbest producers make what is called a "Protect Master" which is stored in separate place. From that a they make the Duplication masters. nothing on video has only one copy. Most producers have 3 masters in hand before they leave the post house. I would imagine that everything they have on 2" or 1" reels has been archived to a digital format since analog tape deteriorate over time.
At the post house I worked at in Denver has one of the last 2" machines left in the country. We did a ton of transfering old Gene Autry movies to Digital Betacam. |
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| alexbook
Sun 6/1/2008 3:18p | KPCC-FM is reporting that the tapes would be replaceable, but that they were being removed as a safety measure, as they're flammable and toxic. They're also warning people downwind to reduce outside activity, as the stuff that's already burned may include some potentially hazardous materials.
Anybody else struck by how many Universal movies, TV shows, and rides have been mentioned by name in the news reports? "The Wisteria Lane set, where Universal's popular TV show 'Desperate Housewives' is filmed, was untouched by the fire." "The tape library consisted of back-ups, so there's no danger that such classic Universal films as <insert half a dozen titles here> being lost." |
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| hopemax
Sun 6/1/2008 4:32p | TVGuide is reporting that the "Ghost Whisperer" sets were destroyed. |
24
| knightnfrees
Sun 6/1/2008 5:00p | << Including the last remaining original set of back to the future clock tower.>>
"Save the clock tower!" |
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| brotherdave
Sun 6/1/2008 6:04p | It's very sad to see pieces of movie and theme park history destroyed like this. However, it could have been a lot worse. Thankfully no one was seriously injured or killed from the fire.
However, a certain 'large ape' is sadly reported DOA. Was this the last animatronic King Kong still in operation? Or does USJapan have one, too? |
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| seanyoda
Sun 6/1/2008 8:13p | Nikke Finke reports that according to a source, Universal Music rents space in the video vault and inside were 1000's of original Decca, MCA, ABC recording masters from the last century.
http://www.deadlinehollywoodda...history/
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| dshyates
Sun 6/1/2008 8:19p | I hadn't heard about that. Audio masters are different than Video masters. These were probably the original tracking sessions. Now without the unmixed masters it is quite a tragedy. |
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| DlandDug
Sun 6/1/2008 11:57p | >>Apparently 3 street sets have burned, including New York Street and the set of The Sting.<<
Bear in mind that these sets were previously leveled in the fire of 1990. There are no "original" backlot sets of New York Street or Brownstone Street (where The Sting was hot) left from before that time.
The most historic sets on the Uni Hollywood lot are Five Points (used since silent western days, and used as literally thousands of "small towns," and the Court of Miracles (used in virtually every Universal monster movie). I have yet to hear of the fate of these two areas.
The courthouse and courthouse square were the town used in To Kill a Mockingbird. Two sides of the square were lost in 1990; it appears the rest disappeared today. Very sad. But all of these were intended to be ephemeral. The films and TV shows will live on. |
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| DlandDug
Mon 6/2/2008 12:17a | Ran across a web site that says the original Court of Miracles burned down in 1967. There have been seven major fires over the years on the Uni Backlot. Here's an article about them:
http://www.thestudiotour.com/u...es.shtml
The 2008 fire is covered here-- but as an "in progress" story. |
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| DlandDug
Mon 6/2/2008 12:33a | Here's the "big" AP story, with 365 photos of the damage:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/f...09990001 |
