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[albear972]

I have always wondered this, I've seen tons of old news TV footage and it has the same format, blacjk and white plus the network name, time and date. Who made these tapes? I've seen the 1968 Democratic convention with Dan Rather too with this exact format?

[OldeYankeeStudios]

Vanderbilt Television News Archive

[pvx]

Yes, OldeYankee is correct, the archive at Vanderbilt University has been recording all national tv newscasts (and some other types of programming, IIRC) from all 3 (and later more) networks since 1968. Their practice has always been to superimpose the recorded time and date at the top of the screen (they later switched to color recording sometime in the late 70s-early 80s). Their recordings have been quite popular as file footage for later television documentaries, as you already know.

[loutenore33]

in new york city channel 4 they used that theme for there local newscasts untill 1978

[MrRemark21]

When this clip was in first run, it was in color & tape.

When this clip was aired on Friday, July 22, 1977, last day of our fourth complete week of five of summer school, the non-SLDC / personal version & school lunch menu courtesy of the Glendora District: Taco Treat w/Ground_Beef,_Cheese_&_Sauce, Shredded Lettuce, Spanish Rice, Applesauce, Harvest Cake.

[MrSickofstupidity]

@kitswf what's so funny about that? why the lol?

[kitswf]

Day before my 8th birthday...lol.

[Macintosh3745]

wouldnt crts overheat in the wall

[neoprankster]

Was the nightly news taped in Black & White or in color that year?

[seawind0721]

@PeerlessPaavo Actually it was the day after my 7th birthday. :-)

[pokopokopokoman]

I also am collecting old news theme tunes of Japan.

[pvx]

Also, you can see for a very brief moment at the beginning of the video a station ID for WSM-TV in Nashville (Vanderbilt's location), which indicates that this (and all of VU's other archive videos) were recorded off-air as well...