A funny story about these videotapes and this program:
In 2004, we received a call from a client to transfer 3/4” U-matic tapes of this concert for non-broadcast use. Upon receipt and playback, it was determined that the tapes (with TAV labels) were offline copies with very large timecode in the picture. I gave the client the bad news and their initial thought was to simply blow up the picture to lose the code. However, this was deemed impractical. I gave my unsolicited opinion that these 3/4” tapes were most likely struck from two-inch Quad originals for the purpose of an offline cut (and read between the lines-this must be on two-inch Quad somewhere). Upon my personal urging of this client, I asked him to go back to the vault in Hollywood and see if the two-inch originals still existed. He thought not but went anyway for the search.
About two hours later, I received a frantic call from my very excited client almost screaming that he had found the two-inch original tapes (line cut plus ISO) and that he was “on his way for delivery”. I could not believe it but I was happy for my client!
The two-inch Quad tapes were first-generation recordings of Frank Sinatra at Caesars Palace in May 5, 1978. They were in very good condition and the Trans America Video remote truck Norelco cameras looked great. Upon delivery of the transferred tapes to the client, they were so thrilled with this “finding” along with the recovered quality that it was decided to add this Caesars Palace videotape performance to a Frank Sinatra 4 CD boxed set already in pre-production.
This “Sinatra Vegas” boxed set hit the market in 2006.
Below is a Wikipedia link summarizing this boxed set: