Simon & Garfunkel - 1968-01-03 - NBC - The Kraft Music Hall, US (DVDfull NTSC pro-shot)

(DVDfull NTSC pro-shot)

No released material here. In fact, there is apparently no released Simon & Garfunkel on video from the sixties at all and no live in studio Simon and Garfunkel as audio releases either.

Lineage:
16 mm. black & white Film > U-Matic video tape > VHS > Final Cut Pro (with Pro Tools audio improvements) > DVD Studio Pro > VIDEO_TS file set.

There was quite a bit of dust on the film when transferred and it shows some during playback. However, it is still very good to excellent black and white video. It's got monophonic TV audio - not spectacular sounding but quite listenable. I have never seen this material circulated before now.

01. A Poem On The Underground Wall
02. talk
03. For Emily Whenever I May Find Her
04. Overs
05. talk
06. Anji [instrumental - Paul accompanied by his brother Ed on 2nd acoustic guitar]
07. Patterns
08. The Sound of Silence
09. The 59th Street Bridge Song* (Feelin' Groovy)

*with Simon, Garfunkel and Nancy Wilson on vocals, plus show host Victor Borge on piano

Total time: 19:28

VHS tape Transfer [June, 2007]:
Sony WV-DR7 > Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter (DV Hardware Codec Converter) > Final Cut Pro (capture, chaptering & filter to remove head switch jitter on bottom of screen) > Compressor > DVD Studio Pro (menu & DVD authoring) > DVD file set. md5 file created with xACT.

Audio post-capture processing in Pro Tools: Normalization, DC-offset removal and some minor clicks and level changes repaired. No noise reduction or equalization. Audio placed back into Final Cut Pro before Compressor down-sampling.

Video: NTSC 720x480 VBR 7.7 Mbps peak, 6.2 Mbps average data rate, 2-pass.

Audio: Dolby Digital 2/0 (L,R), 48 kHz sample rate, 448 kbps data rate.
Monophonic TV audio.

Other notes:
Kraft Music Hall was a longtime running series that went through many changes over the years with different hosts and formats starting on radio in 1933. Bing Crosby was the regular host from 1936 to 1946. Kraft moved to television in 1947 but switched to weekly dramatic productions as "Kraft Television Theatre". The "music-hall" format first appeared on TV in the 1958-59 season with regular hosts that included Milton Berle and
Perry Como. The show went from regular hosts to a variety of different hosts from week to week beginning in the fall of 1967 and it remained in production until 1971.

for more info about this specific TV episode, try the following link:

http://www.tv.com/kraft-music-hall/three-for-tonight-aka-trio-tonight/episode/148631/summary.html