1950s Demo Reel…Local Market Weather Package
On November 5, 2014
- TV History, Viewseum
1950s Demo Reel…Local Market Weather Package
These twenty second forecast pieces were usually not in lieu of a local weather report inside a regular newscast, but were used during the day as sponsored “public interest” spots with a ten second sponsorship slide and VO at the top of each one.
Telecine rooms were always busy back in those early days. It was all manually done with film, slides and live VOs and very “by the book” as the book had all the break and run times, slide and film numbers and live VO scripts. Stations that used this package would have had all these on separate mini reels with leader at the front and back end and woe be unto you if the box and reel numbers got mismatched. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
I am TOTALLY snagging audio from this to use on the radio! LOVE em! 🙂
Now, it takes five minutes, a bunch a maps and gibberish to tell us whether we need a jacket, umbrella, or just short sleeves
The film operator had to be nimble when they had spots like this that take longer to thread up than to run.
Actually, it gets to the point and I like that.
Local affiliate used this package, and it was part of the regular weather report late 50’s-early 60’s. Kind of like ‘First Weather’ is now done in markets.