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[Sullivan, Fred - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

280026

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1997-09-22

Item number (ISN):

280026

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: HEAD OFFICE, ORAL HISTORY RECORDINGS

Accession:

1998-0088

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1997-09-22

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Sandy Stewart

Description:

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Interview of Fred Sullivan about his career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He talks about: how he got his job at the CBC; television programs such as HOWDY DOODY, SPACE PATROL, and JUNIOR MAGAZINE; people he worked with such as Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth, Norm Hersch, George Clark, Paddy Sampson, Kent Sloan and Paul Coborg; the union; working conditions; Peter Garstang; Karl Hilmer and other people; his work in special effects; his retirement from the CBC in 1980; his career before working for the CBC; tool and die making; his making the first TelePrompTer used at the CBC, for the program HOLIDAY RANCH; the difference between working in special effects and working in props; keeping track of what happened to CBC props after use; the CBC building on Sumach Street in Toronto; costume designers; working on the Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster program; the demands made by program producers on special effects staff to come up with things that were hard to produce; the FRIENDLY GIANT set and puppets; Rod Coneybeare; George Clarke; a mishap during the production of the drama DUKE OF DARKNESS; Fred getting caught in a shot; Don Franks; George Loney; working with animals such as horses and ducks; Austin Willis; Joy Lafleur; Leo Ornstein; safety precautions; accidents on the job; more about union strife and union organization; Keith Morrow; Bob Graham; other shows he worked on such as ALPHABET SOUP and FRAGGLE ROCK; Jack Palance; the Norman Bethune biography starring Donald Sutherland; nature programs; children's programs; and other programs on which he worked.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Release form authorizes consultation and CBC broadcast and/or program use as of 22 September 1997.~2. Part of the CBC Oral History Project.

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Vault ISN:

339223

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1998-0088/046

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

84:30

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

390985

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2004-01-0077

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

74:44

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

391013

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2004-01-0078

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

61:54

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

600414

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

280026-1998-0088-46-S1.wav
280026-1998-0088-46-S2.wav

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

96:12

Made from:

1998-0088/46

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

600415

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

280026-1998-0088-46-S1.mp3
280026-1998-0088-46-S2.mp3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

96:12

Made from:

1998-0088/46

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1002086

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2004-01-0077

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1998-0088/46

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1002087

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2004-01-0078

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1998-0088/46
1998-0088/47

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2004-01-0077
A1 2004-01-0078

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of CBCOther restrictions vary.See MISACS item-level descriptions for more specific terms of use delineated on release forms.

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