BOOKLET, INSTRUCTION
[Documentary Artifact]
Accession Number: 2010.26.4
Entitled: Video Toaster Manual
Physical Description: Instruction booklet for NewTek's Video Toaster. Loose-leaf three ring binder. Part of a NewTek Video Toaster computer analog video editing system purchased by by Harold Haun of Topeka from Smith Audio Visual, Inc. in 1992. Haun, who in addition to being an attorney and the former general counsel for KEPCO, is a video editor. One of his films edited on this Video Toaster, "A Particular Fred," won a Kan Film Festival Award in 1993. The Video Toaster was a combination of computer hardware and software developed by NewTek, Inc. of Topeka for edited and producing analog video. The Video Toaster, selling for several thousand dollars, provided a comparatively low-cost video editing suite of tools and allowed small studios and amateurs to produce videos comparable to major production studios using equipment costing ten to twenty times as much. The Video Toaster was first released in 1990, and it won the Emmy Award for Technical Achievement in 1993. NewTek was founded in Topeka in 1985 by Tim Jenison and Paul Montgomery. The company moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1997.
History of Object: Part of a NewTek Video Toaster computer analog video editing system purchased by by Harold Haun of Topeka from Smith Audio Visual, Inc. in 1992. Haun, who in addition to being an attorney and the former general counsel for KEPCO, is a video editor. One of his films edited on this Video Toaster, "A Particular Fred," won a Kan Film Festival Award in 1993. Haun continues to edit and produce films, now using entirely digital equipment. The Video Toaster was a combination of computer hardware and software developed by NewTek, Inc. of Topeka for edited and producing analog video. It was originally built off the Commodore Amiga 2000 computer system. The Video Toaster, selling for several thousand dollars, provided a comparatively low-cost video editing suite of tools and allowed small studios and amateurs to produce videos comparable to major production studios using equipment costing ten to twenty times as much. The Video Toaster was first released in 1990, and it won the Emmy Award for Technical Achievement in 1993. NewTek was founded in Topeka in 1985 by Tim Jenison and Paul Montgomery. The company moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1997.
Date: 1992
Dimensions (in cm): 29.40 (H) 27.40 (W) 5.50 (D)
Marks/Inscriptions: [cover and spine] Video Toaster Manual / NEWTEK / INCORPORATED //
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Associations and Subjects
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Business / Organization: Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
Theme/topic: Motion pictures
Individual: Haun, Harold
Business / Organization: NewTek, Inc.
Use, Place of: Topeka (Kan.)
Use, Place of: Shawnee County (Kan.)
Business / Organization: Smith Audio Visual, Inc.
Creators and Contributors
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NewTek, Inc.
Status: Cataloged
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