WSFA audiovisual item A031.0010

The following segments are included: 0:00:06: Live interview with Mayor Emory Folmar before the city council meeting to discuss the city budget. Presented by Dave Ricky, WSFA-TV News. 0:02:56: Cows on a dairy farm. 0:04:19: Opening sequence for the 1:00 a.m. news, including music and footage from...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/wsfa/id/110
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Summary:The following segments are included: 0:00:06: Live interview with Mayor Emory Folmar before the city council meeting to discuss the city budget. Presented by Dave Ricky, WSFA-TV News. 0:02:56: Cows on a dairy farm. 0:04:19: Opening sequence for the 1:00 a.m. news, including music and footage from several news segments. 0:04:46: Closing sequence for the 1:00 a.m. news, including music and footage from several news segments. 0:05:49: Interview with a farmer about pests such as the bollworm and the fall armyworm, which are killing cotton crops. Presented by George Mitchell, WSFA-TV News. 0:08:22: Interview about Paso Fino and Paso Largo horses before the 1977 Paso Fino Grand Championship National Show at Garrett Coliseum the weekend of August 27, 1977. 0:10:40: Lanier High School football team practice led by coach Cliff Little. 0:12:40: Alabama Chief Justice C. C. "Bo" Torbert discusses a potential budget or financial crisis of the courts and legislature before the start of the 1978 fiscal year on October 1, 1977. 0:14:52: Mayor Emory Folmar asks the public to notify authorities of suspicious activity following two burglaries that were witnessed but not reported. 0:15:49: Mayor Emory Folmar criticizes criminal and disruptive activity at a rock concert at Paterson Field on August 21, 1977, and he vows that no such issues will occur at local football games. 0:17:02: Hubert Shuptrine signs autographs and displays his paintings at the Governor's Environmental Quality Awards Program on August 24, 1977. 0:17:51: Silent B-roll footage for an earlier segment on the boll worm infestation in Alabama farms. 0:19:32: Silent B-roll footage of the Coosa River. 0:20:12: Interview with Azie Taylor Morton, United States Treasurer between 1977 and 1981. 0:22:40: The city council holds a public hearing on the budget process. Includes an interview with Mayor Emory Folmar on the budget, inflation, and salary increases. 0:24:34: Board meeting on public schools. 0:26:06: Tom Brokaw of NBC's Today program interviews two men about President Richard Nixon's role in the attempted cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his series of interviews with David Frost. 0:31:06: Incomplete segment of NBC's Today show featuring an interview with author Brian Garfield on television violence; music from Les Paul and George Benson; and a story on President Richard Nixon's interviews with David Frost. Presented by Jane Pauley and Gene Shalit.