Since 2020, Reiss Restorations has had the pleasure of helping to digitize thousands of videotapes, films, photographs, and audio materials for countless clients, ranging from families to insutitional archives. We have helped preserve both precious family memories as well as historic television broadcasts and snippets of lost media. Our work uncovering and digitizing high quality footage of the 1969 Moon Landing garnered both national and global attention, solidifying our business among the most respected digitization experts and media preservationists.

Now, we need your help.

2 years ago, we came upon a treasure trove of lost media relics that are in dire need of preservation and digitization. Specifically, we discovered around 30 2-inch quadruplex videotapes from 1967-1973 that came from the former WNEW, now known as WNYW (Fox 5 in New York City). The owner fished them out of the studio's dumpster in NYC around 1990 and had been holding onto them ever since. We paid a nominal price to gain ownership of the tapes, and they have been sitting in our storage ever since.

But we don't want them to be in storage forever. We want them to be digitized and shown to the world. The list of titles on these tapes are pieces of broadcast television and New York City history. In particular, the collection contains a number of episodes of the short-lived local show, The New Yorkers hosted by Sonny Fox and with on-air improvisational musical performances by Joe Raposo, of Muppets and Sesame Street fame. Couple these shows with commercials, rare outtakes and bloopers from The King Family Singers, and lost news media, and we have ourselves a treasure trove waiting to be seen and preserved.

And while we here at Reiss Restorations can digitize dozens of formats, we cannot digitize 2-inch quadruplex tapes. The machines these run on are about the size of a small kitchen, and very few working ones exist today. In the event of their digitization, they are far too heavy to ship. So, we will have to physically drive them ourselves to another transfer studio that specializes in the format.

The tapes range from perfectly clean to completely covered in mold. And nearly all of them are bound to have bad cases of sticky shed syndrome, requiring long-term baking treatment.

We did a test run a little over a year ago with a transfer studio who cleaned, baked, and digitized a few of the reels and the results were fantastic. However, the job was not cheap, nor was the estimate to process the rest of the lot. That's where YOU come in!

Quadruplex tapes are some of the most expensive formats to digitize, but the studio we worked with is giving us a good deal. We are hoping to crowd fund the entire project. Your contribution, no matter how small, will help these 26 remaining video reels come back to life. And once the project is complete, all videos will be uploaded to YouTube for you and the world to enjoy and study. Complete shows will be uploaded tp Elijah's YouTube account , while commercial breaks and on-air promos will be uploaded to Ethan's YouTube account .

Spread the world to fellow lost media and television history enthusiasts! The more the merrier. And thank you for your continued support of Reiss Restorations. Onward!

Here is a complete list of our archive to be digitized:

1. 1967-10-20 - The David Susskind Show

2. 1968-03-22 - The New Yorkers

3. 1968-04-19 - The New Yorkers

4. 1968-05-30 - The New Yorkers

5. 1968-06-17 - The New Yorkers

6. 1968-07-26 - Bedford-Stuyvesant Footage

7. 1968-08-09 - The New Yorkers

8. 1968-08-12 - The New Yorkers

9. 1968-08-13 - The New Yorkers

10. 1968-08-16 - The New Yorkers

11. 1968-10-08 - The Skitch Henderson Show

12. 1968-10-10 - The 10 O’Clock News

13. 1968-11-14 - Thanksgiving with the King Family (rerun, not for air unedited version)

14. 1968-11-18 - Maurice Woodruff Predicts

15. 1968-11-20 - Thanksgiving with the King Family (rerun)

16. 1969-07-17 - The Ghost in the House

17. 1972-12-23 - January with the King Family (rerun)

18. 1973-04-22 - Easter with the King Family (rerun)

19. 1973-10-26 - October with the King Family (rerun)

20. UNDATED - Christmas with the King Family (possible rerun with bloopers)

21. UNDATED - July with the King Family (possible rerun)

22. UNDATED - Maurice Woodruff Predicts

23. UNDATED - The New Yorkers

24. UNDATED - Unlabeled Scotch Tape

25. UNDATED - Unlabeled Scotch Tape

26. UNDATED - Unlabeled Scotch Tape