{"id":3573,"date":"2016-03-10T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T20:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:17:29","slug":"attics-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/2016\/03\/10\/attics-of-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attics of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be rummaging through your parents\u2019 or grandparents\u2019 attic, basement or garage, and stumble upon some old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reel-to-reel_audio_tape_recording\" target=\"_blank\">reel-to-reel\u00a0audiotape<\/a>, or perhaps some dust-covered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadruplex_videotape\" target=\"_blank\">videotape\u00a0reels<\/a>\u00a0that seem absurdly large &amp; clunky, they are most likely worthless, except for perhaps sentimental value. Even if these artifacts did, at one time, have some unique historic content, you may never know, because there&#8217;s a strong chance that decades of temperature extremes have made the media unplayable. The machines that\u00a0were once used to play the media are often no longer manufactured, hard to find, and only a handful of retired engineers know how to repair them. That is, if they can find the right spare parts, which no one sells anymore.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3609\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/Bart_starr_bw.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3609\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3609\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/Bart_starr_bw-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Bart_starr_bw\" width=\"298\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/Bart_starr_bw-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/Bart_starr_bw-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/Bart_starr_bw-1024x588.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/Bart_starr_bw.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quarterback Bart Starr led the Green Bay Packers to a 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in\u00a0Super Bowl 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3582\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/RCA_Video-Aufzeichnungsger\u00e4t-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3582\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/RCA_Video-Aufzeichnungsger\u00e4t-1-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"RCA Quadruplex 2&quot;\" width=\"400\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/RCA_Video-Aufzeichnungsger\u00e4t-1-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/RCA_Video-Aufzeichnungsger\u00e4t-1.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Haupt likely recorded Super Bowl 1 using an RCA Quadruplex 2&#8243; color videotape recorder, common at television studios in the late 1960s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, once in a while, something that is one of a kind miraculously survives. That was the case for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/03\/sports\/football\/super-bowl-i-recording-broadcast-nfl-troy-haupt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Haupt<\/a>, a resident of North Carolina\u2019s Outer Banks, who discovered that his father, Martin Haupt, had recorded the very first Super Bowl onto <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadruplex_videotape\" target=\"_blank\">2\u201d Quadruplex color videotape<\/a> directly from the\u00a01967 live television broadcast. After Martin passed away, the tapes ended up in Troy\u2019s mother\u2019s attic, yet somehow survived the elements.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this so unique is that, in 1967, videotape was very expensive and archiving at television networks was not a priority. So the networks that aired\u00a0the first Super Bowl, CBS and NBC, did not save any of the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/06\/sports\/football\/super-bowl-i-recording-linked-to-job-repairing-tape-machines.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martin\u00a0Haupt<\/a> happened to work for a company that repaired professional videotape recorders, which were, in 1967, cutting edge technology. Taping television broadcasts was part of Martin&#8217;s\u00a0job, a way to test the machines he was rebuilding. Fortunately, Martin\u00a0went to work the day Super Bowl 1 aired live. The two <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadruplex_videotape\" target=\"_blank\">Quadruplex videotapes<\/a> that Martin Haupt used to record <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Bowl_I\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl 1<\/a> cost $200 each in 1967. In today&#8217;s dollars, that\u2019s almost $3000 total for the two tapes. Buying a \u201cVCR\u201d at your local department store\u00a0was unfathomable then, and would not be possible for at least another decade. Somehow, Martin missed recording halftime, and part of the third quarter, but\u00a0it turns out that Martin\u2019s son Troy now owns the most complete\u00a0known video recording of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Bowl_I\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl 1<\/a>, in which the quarterback Bart Starr led the Green Bay Packers to a\u00a035-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3584\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/nagra-iv-s.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3584\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3584\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/nagra-iv-s-1024x753.jpg\" alt=\"Nagra IV-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/nagra-iv-s-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/nagra-iv-s-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/nagra-iv-s-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/nagra-iv-s.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Cantor-Jackson recorded many of the Grateful Dead&#8217;s landmark concerts using a Nagra IV-S Reel to Reel audiotape recorder. The Dead&#8217;s magnum opus, &#8220;Dark Star&#8221; could easily fill an entire reel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For music fans, another treasure was uncovered in a storage locker in Marin County, CA, in 1986. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relix.com\/articles\/detail\/whats_become_of_the_bettys\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Cantor-Jackson<\/a> worked for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grateful_Dead\" target=\"_blank\">The Grateful Dead\u2019s<\/a> road crew, and made professional multi-track recordings of many of their best concerts, between 1971-1980, on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reel-to-reel_audio_tape_recording\" target=\"_blank\">reel-to-reel audiotape<\/a>. The Dead were known for marathon concerts in which some extended songs, like &#8220;Dark Star&#8221; could easily fill an entire audio reel. The band gave Betty\u00a0permission to record, but she purchased her own gear and blank tape, tapping into the band\u2019s mixing console to capture high-quality, soundboard recordings of the band\u2019s epic concerts during\u00a0their prime era. Betty held onto her tapes until she fell on hard times in the 1980\u2019s, lost her home, and had to move the tapes to a storage locker. She couldn\u2019t pay the storage fees, so the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relix.com\/articles\/detail\/whats_become_of_the_bettys\" target=\"_blank\">locker contents went up for auction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3612\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/barton.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3612 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/barton-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"barton\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/barton-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/files\/2016\/03\/barton.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Cantor-Jackson recorded the Grateful Dead&#8217;s show at Barton Hall in 1977, considered by many fans to be one of their best concerts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some 1000 audio reels ended up in the hands of three different buyers, none of whom knew what the tapes contained. Once the music was discovered, copies of the recordings began to leak to hardcore tape-traders within the Deadhead community, and they became affectionately referred to as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.relix.com\/articles\/detail\/whats_become_of_the_bettys\" target=\"_blank\">The Betty Boards<\/a>.\u201d It turns out the tapes include some legendary performances, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gd1971-02-20.sbd.cantor.orf.6188.shnf\" target=\"_blank\">1971 Capitol Theatre run<\/a>, and the May 1977 tour, including \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gd77-05-08.maizner.hicks.5002.sbeok.shnf\" target=\"_blank\">Barton Hall, May 8, 1977<\/a>,\u201d considered by many Deadheads as one of the best Grateful Dead concerts of all time.<\/p>\n<p>You would think the current owners of Super Bowl 1 and Barton Hall, May 8, 1977\u00a0would be sitting on gold. But, that\u2019s where the lawyers come in. Legally, the people who possess these tapes own the physical tapes, but not the content on those tapes. So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/03\/sports\/football\/super-bowl-i-recording-broadcast-nfl-troy-haupt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Haupt <\/a>owns the 2\u201d inch quadriplex reels of Super Bowl 1, but the NFL owns what you can see on those reels. The NFL owns the copyright of the broadcast. Likewise, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relix.com\/articles\/detail\/whats_become_of_the_bettys\" target=\"_blank\">The Grateful Dead <\/a>owns the music on the audio reels, regardless of who owns the physical tape\u00a0that\u00a0contains the music. Unfortunately, for NFL\u00a0fans and Deadheads, this makes the content somewhat inaccessable for now. Troy Haupt has offered to sell his videotapes to the NFL, but they have mostly ignored him. If Troy tries to sell the tapes to a third party instead, the NFL says they will sue him, for unauthorized distribution of their content. The owners of the Grateful Dead tapes face a similar dilema. The band\u2019s management isn\u2019t willing to pay money\u00a0for the physical tapes, but if the owners, or any third party the owners sell the tapes to, try to distribute the music, they will get sued. However, if it weren&#8217;t for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/06\/sports\/football\/super-bowl-i-recording-linked-to-job-repairing-tape-machines.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Haupt<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.relix.com\/articles\/detail\/whats_become_of_the_bettys\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Cantor-Jackson<\/a>, who had the foresight to record these events in the first place, the content would not exist at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be rummaging through your parents\u2019 or grandparents\u2019 attic, basement or garage, and stumble upon some old reel-to-reel\u00a0audiotape, or perhaps some dust-covered\u00a0videotape\u00a0reels\u00a0that seem absurdly large &amp; clunky, they are most likely worthless, except for perhaps sentimental value. Even if these artifacts did, at one time, have some unique historic content, you may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/2016\/03\/10\/attics-of-your-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Attics of Your Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":3609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expertise","category-equipment","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Attics of Your Life - Bitstreams: The Digital Collections Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/bitstreams\/2016\/03\/10\/attics-of-your-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Attics of Your Life - Bitstreams: The Digital Collections Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you happen to be rummaging through your parents\u2019 or grandparents\u2019 attic, basement or garage, and stumble upon some old reel-to-reel\u00a0audiotape, or perhaps some dust-covered\u00a0videotape\u00a0reels\u00a0that seem absurdly large &amp; clunky, they are most likely worthless, except for perhaps sentimental value. 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