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Lund, Blanche - Interview

Item number (ISN):

378461

Series title:

Live to Air

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2002-05-08

Item number (ISN):

378461

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Type of material:

Moving images

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MCKENNA, Jim

Accession:

2006-0176

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2002-05-08

Production company:

Jim McKenna (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Jim McKenna

Description:

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Unedited interview of dancer-choreographer Blanche Lund about her experiences working in live television for the CBC. The interview is for a two-hour documentary entitled LIVE TO AIR, broadcast on CBC television on 16 September 2002. Among the subjects discussed are: how she started working in television; the excitement of live television; auditions for dancers; training dancers and doing their own dances on THE BIG REVUE; Don Hudson; having only so many hours to set up a dance routine and polish it; her husband Alan Lund; working on the musical portion of the dance arrangement; altering costumes so that the dancers could move in them; work she and Alan Lund had done on U.S. television for the Ed Sullivan and Kate Smith shows; a routine she and Alan Lund did called Magic in the Moonlight; her costume falling down during a routine; getting injured during a dress rehearsal of the We’re a Couple of Swells dance routine made famous by Fred Astaire and Judy Garland; a dancer forgetting her routine; doing THE BIG REVUE for a year and then leaving for England; returning to Canada and dancing on CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC SHOWTIME; a fly landing in a pudding Austin Willis was supposed to eat during a Royal Pudding commercial; singers who could not dancer; a mishap when Wally Koster was interviewing Ginger Rogers; doing the story ballet Barbara Allen; doing choreography for CROSS CANADA HIT PARADE; problems created by dry ice during a CROSS CANADA HIT PARADE production; the lack of audience feedback during the television performance and the fear of making mistakes; rehearsals; rehearsal rooms; heavy props; a mishap with an axe when Phyllis Marshall was trying to sing Blueberry Hill; other CBC singers; Jack Arthur and his show MR. SHOWBUSINESS; dancer Lorraine Thompson; fond memories of live television; the freedom to try different things in live television; being too busy to have much camaraderie among performers and the crew; Norman Jewison; a camera falling over during ashow; the hectic pace of live TV; and being hired by Fergus Mutrie of the CBC to dance on TV shows and do choreography. <53mn 15s>

Language:

English

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1. This is a Betacam SX dub of originals shot on Betacam SP tapes 12 and 13.~2. The Canadian Broadcast Museum holds the Betacam SP originals.~3. Some replies are rephrased at the request of the interviewer in order to create complete replies since the interviewer’s questions are edited out for the documentary.~4. Videotape and transcript available for consultation on LAC premises.~5. Tape starts with some still images of Ted Follows and others, to 1mn 58s.~6. There are colour bars approximately 31 minutes into the tape.
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Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2007-02-0020

Restrictions on consultation:

Open for consultation.

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