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- It's been 50 years since the Sylmar Earthquake occurred. The date was February 9, 1971.
An engineer at Hollywood Video Center went into work that morning and recorded a short segment on one of their production two-inch Quad videotape recorders, taking a feed from KTLA channel 5 (via a TV antenna/tuner).
Technical notes: The channel 5 "Telecopter" was equipped with a Norelco PCP-70 color camera, enabling it to microwave back live color pictures. At that time, no other LA TV station had that capability! Also noteworthy is that there were no frame synchronizers then. The matte camera was genlocked to the incoming Telecopter microwave signal. The switching from the Telecopter to studio cameras was a "hot switch". Here is a portion from that videotape!
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53 years ago today. I was just a kid living in San Fernando. Just felt a earthquake a few minutes ago. Epicenter Malibu 4.7
I lived at 2529 N San Fernando Blvd in Burbank on February 9, 1971. We woke up to the earthquake. Furniture swayed and fell. The room shook and the walls cracked. It seemed to last forever. The aftershocks lasted for a month. Unforgettable!
I googled that address. Looks like at that time the location was a motel, am I right ? Its still there but looks like a private residence of some sort now.
I lived through this earthquake and I remember it well, my mom and dad and I were living in Yoba Linda at the time. It was terrible, all of the shaking and stuff coming out of the cabinets and our poor dogs howling, I remember it all and at the time I was 8 and a half. It has been 40 years since this happened, I think. Love from Marysville, California
i was 3. only rember my father carrying me down apt stairs
Actually, it's been over 50 years since this happened. 😊
This is GOLD! I never thought I'd see a clip from the Big 5 News days. Kevin Sanders and a young Barney Morris (who I grew up seeing on Ch 7 KABC).
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Was Kevin Sanders an Aussie, or did he have a speech impediment?
We lived in San Gabriel Valley, in El Monte when this quake hit. Threw us back and forth trying to get to the front door of our house. 6.9 was a big quake..never forgot it.
I love Kevin Sander's accent.
I was 12 that year, living in Monterey Park. It was about 6am, and it woke me up I wasn't aware the damage was that bad because we didn't get the worst of it.
I lived in Chatsworth at the time of the earthquake. I remember it well and was 9 years old. My dad took us to view the damage at the V.A. Hospital. Also, experienced the 2001 Nisqually earthquake in Washington.
Kevin Sanders, the first voice of CNN. Very cool!!
No he wasn’t.
I remember this KTLA logo as it was still used for the SLA shootout in 1974, and microwaved live up to KPIX San Francisco (where I watched it). Notice the loss of sync between the switchover from the chopper. No TBC/frame synchronizers back then! TBC's were only on VTRs back then for tape playback. Not for live video.
That is true--for those who don't know, the first digital TBCs that came out in the early 70s (like those from Microtime and CVS, such as the latter's Model CVS-500 from 1973, the first stand-alone digital TBC on the market, IINM) only had enough internal memory to process only a few lines of video (4-16 lines) at a time, which made it only suitable for VTRs. For those early TBCs worked by by "steering" the sync of the VTR via an advance sync output from the TBC fed into the connected VTR's external sync input to compensate for the small amount of video lines it could process, IIRC.
As the price of semiconductor memory devices dropped by the late 70s, TBCs on the market by that time could process a whole field of video at a time, aka the "infinite window" TBCs that could work with any video source, even live video---and didn't require a advance sync output to the video device feeding the TBC video input to control things. Some early examples of full-field infinite-window TBCs are the Thomson-CSF 9300 video processor, and the Quantel DFS 3100 TBC/frame store/synchronizer, both from 1979.
An extra benefit of these infinite window TBCs is that they could now also perform other tasks with the video, thanks to their ability to process a whole field of video at a time, such as video noise reduction (as the Thomson 9300 could do), or also function as a frame synchronizer to sync up/genlock external video sources not synchronized to a TV station's house sync, into their facilities (such as live microwave or satellite-fed video from a helicopter or ENG/SNG truck). In fact, some infinite window TBCs were also marketed as frame syncs as well (as Quantel's DFS 3100 was).
That coverage was just riveting. I was only four months old, living in Fullerton with my parents. Yet people talked about that quake for years after it happened.
For everyone who was there at that moment in time ,it's was an experience forever etched in memory .
I still have vivid memories of being woken up by my sister in the bed we shared as the l quake was coming to an end
Being a kid in a disaster like that is traumatizing
I was 5 and remember
This was certainly the most powerful earthquake I'd experienced. I lived in Long Beach -- a full 52 miles from the epicenter - and it cracked the concrete all around our house and jiggled furniture hither and yon. Luckily my dad was a developer and had built our home on a hillside, framed with steel I-beams -- for this very reason. It had only been 38 years since the Long Beach earthquake of 1933 -- the fault on which was barely a quarter mile from where our house was built -- and so my dad built this house to withstand the Apocalypse.
I've counted two earthquakes in SoCal that I'd been in or felt: The Borrego Mtn quake in 1968, and the Sylmar quake in 1971. Only two others I'd been in since then were an earthquake in the Philippines in 1995, and the Nisqually earthquake in WA in 2001.
I wish there was a full length tape of this on TH-cam.
I lived in Sylmar off of Glenoaks Blvd the gas mains blew up and it took my bed and smashed it up against one wall then back to the opposite wall and we had no water for 2 months. This is why I now live in Colorado. LOL
Much of that part of L.A. wasn't ready for prime time back then. The lack of earthquake tech could pulverize a place like that.
This earthquake was the basis for the film "Earthquake" in 1974...
23 years later, the Northridge Earthquake had accrued. ☹️☹️
During the Ridgecrest quakes there was someone on Twitter talking about living through Sylmar Whittier and Northridge… I can’t imagine staying in LA after 2 let alone 3 big quakes.
@@beerrox711 I lived in LA for ten yrs. You just put on your sea legs and continue with your day.
@@beerrox711cuh ! Whittier hit RIGHT before I walked out the door to go to school. Yeah……kindergarten for me. I asked mom did I still have to go to school. I was sitting on #8 on the carpet feeling the aftershocks. We had a substitute teacher that day. Mr. Hancock - who I still talk about to this day. He was our teacher for about a week. He said something profound one day that I never forgot. “You’ll never get anywhere in life without your ABCs”. Mr. Hancock resembled Dr. George Fischbeck. I am 41 years old now. Lived through many quakes from Whittier to Northridge to Landers to Big Bear to Ridgecrest. When I leave California, EARTHQUAKES WILL NOT BE MISSED. Loma Prieta quake scared the sht out of me and I wasn’t even in Northern California.
This happened 11 and a half months before i was born. 😮
I lived through this earthquake! My dad had a vending machine route and was not home when it happened. Within 3 days, we had packed up our belongings in a small Uhaul, hooked to our VW Bug, and moved back to Indiana. I wouldn't live in California if they gave it to me!
I was there too and am still there (here).
I think we're good, lol
Lucky you. I was ready to move after Northridge in 1994. I have the misfortune of being born to silly rabbits. My parents were new to Cockifornia 1 & 2 years prior to Sylmar. Must not have freaked them out too bad. They stayed.
It is a funny feeling when the stability of the ground you walk, live, work and sleep on is invalidated.
Not all but most of the time living in LA you just put on your sea legs and continue with your day.
Please tell me you have more from this or other news clips from your collection?
210 freeway reminded me of the 880 freeway Oakland loma prieta 1989
Barney Morris spend time at WCAU in Philadelphia for about a year.
Before I was born. Why are the news guys accents like that? Accents have so changed.
I lived at lassen and havenhurst. We were evacuated due to the Van Norman dam breaking. Remember telling my dog scruffy to quit shaking the bed. I walked out to the hall and saw the cabinets doors twisting and our concrete slab house rolling right in front of my eyes. Like an acid trip. Police came told to evacuate and my mom ran out of the house with her wig and was ready to go.
We took scruffy and left muffin the cat.
No school. Yey 😂.
Poor Muffin. Yall suck for that.
Hi, I send mail to you. I have quad tapes, and I`m looking someone, who can digitalize it.
There was lots more to cover aside from this area. What was the point of just hovering in the same spot ? I want to see the full coverage tape !
Wow!
Terrible military hospital collapsed and over soldiers fighting in vietnam
That is not a Military Hospital. That is a Veterans Hospital. It actually was first built during WWI, and then greatly expanded after WWII. Long before any of the building codes for earthquakes existed.
And it was not alone, the Olive View Hospital just a few miles away was only 6 months old and it collapsed also.