Last great movie set is going
Hollywood shifts trend as Columbia plans to sell ranch and move with Warner Bros. The 1776 set on three acres in Burbank cost 500000 and features Independence Hall replicas built by a 150 man crew. The era of location ranches wanes with industry consolidation and a shift to shoots “where it's at.”
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Bob Thomas
Associated Press
Hollywood
Jack L. Warner
Columbia Studio
Burbank
Philadelphia
Warner
George Jenkins
Independence Hall
State House
Chesnut Street
Market Place
High Street
Columbia Ranch
Columbia
Gower Street
Warner Bros
MGM
Molly Brown
RKO
Paramount
Universal
Paris
Culver City
Communications satellites surpass 10000 trans Oceanic circuits
Communications satellites now offer more than 10,000 trans Oceanic circuits, about three times the number of underwater cable circuits.
Mrs. Jack LaLanne Embraces Husband's Fitness Philosophy
Elaine LaLanne, wife of TV fitness host Jack LaLanne, details how she quit smoking, replaced sugar with honey, swapped white flour for wheat, and joined his exercise program. She recalls meeting him in 1950, midlife changes, and continues to promote his health principles on and off air.
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Hollywood
Jack LaLanne
Elaine LaLanne
Elaine
LaLanne
Jack
San Francisco
San Mateo
Rating service taking vacation week disrupts TV lineup
AP dispatch notes Nielsen pauses for holidays, networks fill schedules with repeats and specials. ABC airs four pre emptions including A Christmas Carol cartoon and a Danny Thomas hour. NBC opens with Nixon White House footage and Bermuda meeting report. CBS covers Army status special while All in the Family regains top audience.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
Nielsen Research Organization
Nielsen
ABC
Jacques Cousteau
Danny Thomas
NBC
John Chancellor
Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
Bermuda
Edward Heath
CBS
Jack Daugherty Sees Musical Renaissance and Carpenters Jackpot
A&M producer Jack Daugherty argues music is returning to roots with a bigger horned band sound. He recalls discovering the Carpenters, quitting a secure job to produce them, and later building a self contained project with 36 musicians and limited vocals. The piece notes his past work on the Apollo moon-landing film work and his described optimism for a village rooted musical direction.
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Jack Daugherty
A&m
Daugherty
Jack
Richard
Karen Carpenter
The
Carpenters
Wilson
Las Vegas
Woody Herman
North American Aviation
Herb Alpert
Herb
The Homecoming telecast recalls a warm family portrait
A nostalgic Christmas Eve recollection becomes a moving two hour television story about the Walton family set in Virginia. Earl Hamner Jr. adapts the tale with Richard Thomas as John Boy and Patricia Neal as the mother. Brenda Vaccaro stars in the separate Saturday film What’s a Nice Girl Like You.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
Earl Hamner Jr
Walton
John Walton
Patricia Neal
John Boy
Richard Thomas
Hamner
Blue Ridge Mountains
Virginia
Wyoming
ABC
Brenda Vaccaro
Bronx
Yorkshire TV drops Cagney film on IRA
Yorkshire England 1958 film Shake Hands With The Devil about 1921 Irish troubles is dropped from all programming. No comment from Yorkshire TV. The piece noted stars Roddy McDowell Vincent Price and script by Howard Fast despite its charm and witty lines.
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Yorkshire TV
Cagney
Ira
Yorkshire
England
James Cagney
Yorkshire Television
Roddy McDowell
Vincent Price
Howard Fast
Television Listings And An Odd Jolly Green Giant Fact
A TV schedule fragment lists KMID TV Channel 2 and KVKM TV Channel 9 programs across the day from morning talk shows to late night soap operas. The piece ends with a trivia note that Herschel Bernardi provided the ho ho ho voice for the Jolly Green Giant and also played the Arnie tough-talker in another ad campaign.
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Herschel Bernardi
Arnie
Charlie the Tuna
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