| Summary: | The following segments are included (due to tape deterioration, the screen sometimes flashes black in the video):
0:00:01: Footage and theme song for the opening and closing segments of the WSFA television show "Composite."
0:02:39: "Composite" segment on a bluegrass band at the Dark Hollow Bluegrass Inn. Includes interviews with Mike Mason and Don Holmes on the history of the genre and its popularity in the area. Presented by Bill Weaver, WSFA-TV News.
0:09:57: "Composite" segment on the construction of the new WSFA broadcast tower. Presented by Norman Lumpkin, WSFA-TV News.
0:16:02: Footage of a Catholic church service and ceremony for use in a "Composite" episode.
0:20:44: Representative Alvin Holmes discusses a legislative resolution to dissolve Lieutenant Governor Jere Beasley's special Interim Committee on Finance and Taxation, which he accuses Beasley of using as a political campaign committee for his upcoming gubernatorial run.
0:23:55: The third trial of Representative Thomas Reed begins at the Montgomery County courthouse on July 19, 1977. Reed had been accused of attempting to bribe Senator Dudley Perry to pass a bill on dog racing in Macon County. (The trial had been preceded by two mistrials due to juror complications.) Includes an interview with a Mrs. Robinson, who led a committee asking Attorney General Bill Baxley not to order a retrial for Reed. Presented by Norman Lumpkin, WSFA-TV News.
0:27:19: Footage of a city council meeting during which Mayor Emory Folmar presented two awards to a young woman.
0:27:36: Councilman Luther Oliver asks the city council to consider an ordinance requiring lifeguards at motel and apartment swimming pools. A public hearing on the matter was scheduled for the following week.
0:28:19: During a press conference, Lieutenant Governor Jere Beasley discusses the abolition of the special Interim Committee on Finance and Taxation, which was hidden in Representative Alvin Holmes's resolution honoring Auburn University sprinter Harvey Glance. Attorney General Bill Baxley supported the measure. (For the text of the resolution, see https://archive.org/details/alabama-acts-1977_v2/page/n205.)
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