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Nutt, Tom - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304284

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1982-03-18

Item number (ISN):

304284

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1982-0285

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1982-03-18

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Vic Owen

Description:

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Vic Owen interviews Tom Nutt, CBC employee at EHQ. Nutt discusses: his memories of the first days of television at the CBC; programs and people who worked in early CBC-TV; his own work with Bell Canada around 1950-1951; his involvement with the New Play Society with Mavor Moore as lighting man; his initial training; members of the technical staff on television in the CBC; the first programs and performers, including the Leslie Bell Singers and Drew Crawsan; Percy Saltzman and the weather; differences between television and theatre; anecdote about the first "flub" on television; THE BIG REVIEW with Don Hudson; shortage of equipment; Stephen Leacock and SUNSHINE SKETCHES; description of daily routine in production of early TV programs; GENERAL MOTORS THEATRE; his promotion to supervisor status; Tom Kelly; Norman Jewison; Norm Campbell; Harvey Hart; difficult projects including the coverage of the opening of Parliament; Pierre Normandeau, producer in early TV days; description of early technical problems in television; National Conservative Convention and technical comments; Fred Sullivan; Special Effects Department; TALES OF ADVENTURE produced by David Green, Jim Ellis and Vic Furry was the first time stop kinescope was used; TABLOID with Ross Maclean; Frank Kramer and production of opera; Harvey Hart and production of church services; CBC's inserts for NBC's WIDE WORLD OF TELEVISION; and the challenges of Expo '67 and the Olympics. <1h 1mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Montreal.

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Vault ISN:

339723

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03502

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Reproduction access:

to be cleared with Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project until December 1987 - thereafter no restrictions

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