Captain Filmo
Saturday, December 26th, 2009Promo for Captain Filmo’s Fantastic Flicks which aired on KVDO-TV, Ch. 3, in Salem, Oregon in 1974.
My first job out of college was at KVDO-TV, a small independent tv station in Salem, Oregon. The station was on the air from 1969 to 1975 and not much of those days survives. This clip is a promo for “Captain Filmo’s Fantastic Flicks” which aired in 1974 for about a month. I playe…d the part of the Captain (and was the manic announcer), my friend Syd Bates was my side kick, and Dave Larson played the “little person” in this promo and was the sane announcer at the end.
This piece was originally recorded on 2 inch quad tape. It was later transferred to 3/4 inch tape and then to VHS tape. I digitized the VHS version on my MacBook through an EyeTV Hybrid and did a bit of clean up in iMovie HD.
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