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Live to Air

Item number (ISN):

378652

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2002

Item number (ISN):

378652

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MCKENNA, Jim

Accession:

2006-0179

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2002

Release date:

2002-09-16

Production company:

Live to Air Productions

Production credit:

director/producer/script, Jim McKenna; line producer/production manager; Sam Jephcott; chief researcher, David Campbell; researcher, Tanya Fleet; Mary DePoe; editing, James Ho Lim; music, James McGrath; narrator, Megan Follows

Description:

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Documentary about the history of live television production by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It includes excerpts from CBC television dramas, comedy shows, variety shows and other productions of the 1950s and 1960s, still photographs, some behind the scenes, of performers and productions; and interviews of producers, actors, singers and dancers of the era. The interviewees are: Juliette Cavazzi; Charmion King; Norman Jewison; Terry Dale; Lorraine Thompson; Dave Broadfoot; Howard Cable; Blanche Lund; John Aylesworth; Frank Peppiatt; Don Harron; Joyce Hahn; Allan Blye; Alex Barris; Jack Duffy; Alfie Scopp; Jackie Rae; Joan Fairfax; Shirley Harmer; Robert Goulet; Joyce Sullivan; Sylvia Murphy; Bob Jarvis; Gordie Tapp; Bill Langstroth; Frank Peppiatt; Arthur Hiller; Frances Hyland; Lloyd Bochner; David Gardner; Corinne Conley; Norman Campbell; Bernard Slade; Don Harron; Paul Almond; Christopher Wiggins; Ted Follows; Leslie Nielsen; Larry Mann; Gordon Pinsent; David Greene; and Bonnie Brooks. The archival footage includes; dry ice producing too much mist, covering up the detailed footwork of an Irish dance routine by Blanche and Alan Lund; Lorraine Thompson holding a pigeon which is defecating in her hand as she walks down a staircase; Don Harron in an early appearance as Charlie Farquharson; Joyce Hahn on a staircase during CROSS CANADA HIT PARADE, while she recounts the story of a staircase coming apart during a show; footage of singers Wally Koster and Phyllis Marshall; skits on THE BARRIS BEAT; Jack Duffy singing on THE BARRIS BEAT; Larry Mann on THE BARRIS BEAT; unappetizing commercials for Chateau Cheese and Maple Leaf wieners; Jackie Rae and Eydie Gormé singing on THE JACKIE RAE SHOW; The Four Grads singing group performing on THE JACKIE RAE SHOW; Jackie Rae and a fellow performing dancing to music the audience can hear but they can’t; Rae reacting to loud noises on the set; Denny Vaughan; Denny Vaughan and Joan Fairfax; Joan Fairfax and female musicians on her own series; Robert Goulet on SHOWTIME; Shirley Harmer singing with Goulet; Harmer signing alone; Joyce Sullivan; Sullivan and Goulet laughing during a song; Jack Kane on MUSIC MAKERS ‘59; Sylvia Murphy; HOLIDAY RANCH; COUNTRY HOEDOWN; footage of the COUNTRY HOEDOWN cast and crew playing a prank on singer Tommy Common; Marg Osborne, Charlie Chamberlain and Don Messer on DON MESSER’S JUBILEE; Billy O’Connor and Juliette Cavazzi on THE BILLY O’CONNOR SHOW; Juliette on her own show; footage of Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth writing; skits from AFTER HOURS, including the MY FAVOURITE NIGHTMARE sketch showing Peppiatt putting a platter cover on Aylesworth’s head; Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster; Shuster fluffing a line; introductions of some CBC drama anthology series such as CBC FOLIO and FESTIVAL; Frances Hyland slipping during a scene and recovering; Lloyd Bochner in HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK; Kate Reid in HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK; a scene with Corinne Conley and Austin Willis in the play THE NEIGHBOURS in which Conley warns Willis that she thinks she has lost a contact lens in a glass he is supposed to drink from and Willis has to pretend to drink out of it; a mistake in THE MIKADO in which the lead character forgets to take off his watch; a scene from REHEARSAL TO INVASION in which Ted Follows gets stuck trying to climb over a wall and calls for help; a play about a rocket and too much smoke being pumped onto the set, obscuring the scene; the play SOCRATES in which Larry Mann and Lloyd Bochner are surprised by an octopus in Mann’s and Mann spots a delivery tag left on Bochner’s couch; Corinne Conley, James Doohan and Cecil Linder in FLIGHT INTO DANGER; and ANNE OF GREEN GABLES with Toby Tarnow and John Drainie. <1h 32mn 53s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Includes introduction by award-winning film director and former CBC television producer-director Norman Jewison, a live television commercial for the product Nicoderm (the first live television commercial broadcast by CBC since the 1950s, a commercial break with Jewison in which he explains how live television shows were recorded on kinescopes, and closing remarks by Jewison.~2. Produced by Live to Air Productions, copyright 2002, in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.~3. The name of Jim McKenna’s production company, Jim McKenna Teleshows, appears at the end of the credits. ~4. This is the final on-air master, in stereo, with closed blacks (no blank spots for insertion of commercials).

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Vault ISN:

436037

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2007-03-0021

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

92:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

793969

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

378652.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2007-03-0021

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

793970

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

378652.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2007-03-0021

Status:

REF
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Open

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No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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