[Tig] A Tigger passed away

[Ian Richardson]

Greetings fellow Tiggers,

Another telecine specialist is no longer with us......

Some of you may, or may not know, a friend and colleague, Malcom Todd passed away late  last year.
He died in Adelaide, South Australia in the arms of his extended family.
Before Mal was taken ill his career was based in Sydney.

So....As we do.....Down Under.....
  I would like to inform our community that next week his old buddies have arranged a 'memorial'
remembrance evening for Mal. This is to be held on Friday  16 March 2007........It will be a big night.
It will be held at the Crows Nest Hotel at Crows Nest on the North Shore, Sydney, Australia.
All who have known Mal are welcome.

In Brief
Mal was the son of the man who designed the mechanics of the Rank MK 11 'twin lens'  telecine, 'pull 
down optically'
with the twin lens mechanism.
Mal subsequently became a Rank Cintel field engineer when Telecines were not maintained with a 
keyboard......
thence seduced to the post production industry here in Sydney Australia where he made his life.

A 'true' telecine engineer had a 'tweeker' in his top pocket at _all_ times.......

He was the ONLY southern recipient of the Options Telecine 'Tweekers' Award.....The impressive award 
[no longer issued]

If you don't know what a tweeker is.....stand in the hall of mirrors and take a look look at 
yourself and weep.

For those of you who remember when the 'notches' for grade corrections were manually made on punched 
paper
  tape 'off line' you will understand the effect that Mal made on the Australian T/C industry. He 
developed and built a TTL
multi-event grading memory for the old 'manual' Topsy panels from Cintel .........
Have you ever heard of wire wrap ?.

And the late nights Mal and myself battled with EECO edit programmers and [AAaaargh] RCA 2" Quad VTR's
[especially the 'Pal' Module] are legendary. I didnt mention the late night relaxiation sessions to 
recover.....

I have had the pleasure of working with a 'proper' telecine engineer from the MK 11 to Ursa to 
Spirit to C reality

We were not board changers......

If you remember Mal.... feel free  to send me a scary 'Malcolm' Story, and I will 'for my part' pass 
it on to his wife and kids and everybodyon the night.

So all...... lift a glass on the 16 March 2007 and remember Malcolm.......... he was a good man

cheers
Richo
-- 
Ian D Richardson
Hi-Definition Television and
Film Post-Production Specialist

Television systems design and engineering
Film and Television projects management
Film and HDTV Pre-production consultation

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