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Royal Visit: Britain Welcomes King and Queen
Royal Visit: Britain Welcomes King and Queen. Decorated naval officer comes ashore and salutes, kisses the queen's hand and salutes again. Another decorated naval officer salutes and shakes the hand of another officer. Queen shakes hand of an officer; her chand is kissed. Shots of royal carriage and procession heading through London streets to the palace. A crowd lines the streets. Shot of the king? and the queen together. A woman is standing to the king's left.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 128
Porter introduces the day's sacred number and dedicates it to all the mothers in the audience, in particular his mother in West Plains, Missouri. Accompanied by The Wagonmasters, Porter plays guitar and sings "Beautiful Wings."
'Wet Backs': Hundreds of Alien Workers Rounded Up
'Wet Backs': Hundreds of Alien Workers Rounded Up. Illegal immigrants walk towards the camera. Barracks are in the background. They line up in the front of a building with their belongings. Shot of building's sign: United States Department of Justice Immigration and Natl Service. Two close shot of immigrants. INS agents search the immigrants themselves and their possessions. Line of aliens walk around a truck towards a building. At night, they board a bus. Shot of INS bus pulling away.
Pirro and the Telephone
DO NOT USE: Opening credits.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 128
Porter thanks everyone for tuning in and patronizing their sponsors, then somewhat awkwardly has the camera follow him over to where the Statler Brothers are standing in preparation for their next number. Porter talks with Don Reid ("who does all the talking for the group") and they chat about how all four of them grew up within 12 miles of each other in Virginia. Then backed by The Wagonmasters the Statlers perform their breakthrough hit, 1965's "Flowers On The Wall." A baby can be heard crying near the end of the song. Porter talks for second afterwards about how Lew DeWitt wrote that one, and how Lew's penned a lot of great ones for the group.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 128
Porter fills some time and answers "a lot of requests that Norma Jean sing two songs," so backed by The Wagonmasters Jean plays guitar and sings "Conscience Keep An Eye On Me." CUs Don's Sho-Bud steel guitar.
Pirro and the Telephone
MS/MCUs Pirro the Clown (marionette) and puppeteer Pat Patterson entering frame, two chairs & a telephone book on stage; Pirro gets onto chair with some difficulty, then wants Pat to read the telephone book for him, they flip through the pages as Pat explains that it s not a story book but a telephone book.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 128
Porter wraps up the show, waving goodbye and shaking hands with the Statlers as The Wagonmasters play the instrumental show outro, Don Howser signs off, credits roll, and Mack fiddles and dances us off the air.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 129
Promo for Porter Wagoner Show #129 with special guest Mel Tillis. Spot opens with Wagoner in rhinestone-studded aquamarine Nudie suit singing "Fireball Mail," then Tillis steps in wearing a brown Nudie suit of his own and stutters out: "I'm Mel Tillis, and I'm gonna be Porter Wagoner's special guest in about two or three days, so you stay tuned to this station. Thank you."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 129
Introduction to Porter Wagoner show #129. Program opens with Wagoner and Wagonmasters Mack Magaha, Buck Trent, Speck Rhodes, Don Warden, and George McCormick as well as Norma Jean onscreen singing "Howdy Neighbor Howdy" in front of a barnyard set painted a glowing lime green. Over brightly colored title card decorated with drawing of Wagoner, announcer Don Howser exclaims: "And now, in color, it's The Porter Wagoner Show, starring Porter Wagoner and The Wagonmasters, with Speck Rhodes and Norma Jean, and special guest Mel Tillis. Bringing you your favorite songs and stars of the Grand Ole Opry!" Howser enters and shakes hands with Porter, who wears his glowing aquamarine Nudie suit. Howser says Tillis had prepared an introduction for Porter, but as the show is only 30 minutes long and Tillis has a little speech impairment, they had to rearrange it. Backed by The Wagonmasters (in matching western-themed radioactive orange suits of their own), Porter plays guitar and sings "Fireball Mail." Focus on Mack Magaha's locomotive-like fiddling.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 129
Porter introduces Mel Tillis, a man who "sings the finest country song you'd ever want to listen to." Wearing a brown rhinestone-bejeweled Nudie suit featuring puppy dogs and cacti, and backed by his own five-piece band The Statesiders (wearing matching iridescent red suits and neon green scarves), Tillis plays guitar and sings the Harlan Howard composition "Life Turned Her That Way" from his 1967 LP "Life's That Way." Afterwards Tillis says his band looks like a bunch of carrots in their orange suits, but the Wagonmasters really have the monopoly on the carrot look.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 129
The Wagonmasters featuring fiddlin' Mack Magaha play us out of the commercial break with a feisty but all too brief version of "Orange Blossom Special."
Prehistoric World
Prehistoric World - Animated Sequence CU Brontosaurus dinosaur head opening mouth & blinking eyes. CU Brontosaurus dinosaur head, pan out to see that artist has put a Brontosaurus head on a Stegosaurus body, the dinosaur is then shown living in a very colorful prehistoric cartoon world with pineapple shaped foliage, scene pans from land to water with dinosaur drinking & erupting volcano puffing smoke, a Pterodactyl flies by. Animated view of erupting volcano with Pterodactyl flying by.
Balloon Science Animation
Balloon Science Animation - Classic educational science film style of animation. Animated sequence begins with man standing in residential neighborhood looking through a telescope, a boy roller-skates into scene with a red balloon, boy hands man the balloon, man hands boy the telescope. View of man & boy as balloon is released, whizzing about the screen, letting go of the air held inside. Animated diagram with arrows showing how the air inside the balloon behaves. View as man gives boy an untied balloon attached to air pump, boy gives balloon a couple pumps, this in conjunction with the air released from the untied balloon causes the boy to whizz about on his roller skates.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 129
Porter introduces Pretty Miss Norma Jean, who plays guitar and sings a new Vic McAlpin composition, "Jackson Ain't A Very Big Town," backed by The Wagonmasters. Nice XCU of Don's steel guitar playing.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 129
Porter announces that he'd like to do a Mel Tillis song, then plays guitar and sings "The Snakes Crawl At Night," which he recorded on his 1966 LP "Soul Of A Convict," accompanied by The Wagonmasters.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 129
We come out of the commercial break to find Mel Tillis placing a call on the old-time wall mounted crank telephone usually reserved for Speck Rhodes' weekly call to his fictional girlfriend Sadie, the switchboard operator. "Hello? Sadie?" Tillis stutters. "Yeah... this is uh... this is... (long pause) hey, Speck" Tillis finally spits out as he hands the earpiece to gap-toothed comedian Rhodes, who enters in his trademark checkered suit and bowler hat. "What's the matter?" Speck asks, and Mel says "I cain't say it, cain't say it, chief." Speck talks to Sadie: "What'd you say, who was it? That was ol' M-m-Mel Tillis, he was tryin' to get a date with you. You don't want to go out with him, the night wouldn't be long enough for him to say I-I-I love you." Speck goes on to even less amusing material, telling a bunch of corny old fashioned rube jokes about the gossip from Drawback County that garner barely a chuckle from the audience. Example: "He's been married for 25 years and is still in love with the same woman. One of these years his wife's gonna catch up with him, too."
Major Bowes Amateur Hour
Opens with very quick montage of theater marquees in New York City, the following two of the most clear & discernible examples: MS marquee for the Amsterdam featuring Fred & Adele Astaire, Frank Morgan, Helen Broderick, Tilly Losch in "The Band Wagon"; TLS/MSs The Rialto. Low angle MS street signs for Broadway & West 53rd Street. Dissolving cocked angle MSs of theater crowds milling about outside theaters. MS theater marquee: "Chrysler Corporation Presents Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour." MS people shuffling in line, pan left to usher taking, tearing tickets. TLS empty theater stage save piano, kettle drums, stands, etc. VO explains roles of behind the scenes personnel. Panning TLS radio announcer at microphone on stage, stagehand moving another mic behind him, Major Bowes at desk, engineers in control room. TLS view of stage from engineer's booth. MSs amateur performers sitting together in audience, talking, smiling, chatting, looking & acting nervous; one young woman chats with her mother, who insists that she not be nervous (the doting mother). Nice MS radio announcer (Ralph) standing at CBS microphone, hand raising in the air, telling the audience to "Stand by. This is it." Good head-on TLS studio audience. ECU second hand passing 12 on clock. MS Major Bowes striking timekeeper's bell. MS Ralph standing at CBS mic, reading Plymouth / Dodge / DeSoto / Chrysler ad from script, introducing show & Major Bowes.
Major Bowes Amateur Hour
MS Major Bowes dispensing cliches, introducing first performer. MSs "Negro girl swing & blues singer" Harriet Waters stepping onto stage, joking with audience, performing "Coffee Colored Girls." MS starry-eyed young Caucasian man playing accordion, the name "Jimmy" on side. Dissolve to MCU hands on piano keys, dissolve to Hispanic man with suave, minor moustache singing an operatic ballad into CBS mic. Dissolve to CU young white woman singing an aria. MS young Lawrence Eisler wearing plaid tie giving humorous impersonation of Charles Laughton. Head-on TLS audience clapping, applauding.
Major Bowes Amateur Hour
Over the shoulder MS Major Bowes speaking into mic, audience in BG. Great side view DOF MS four white female switchboard operators working. MS "Ms. Kitty Stark" looking nervous at microphone, singing "Never in a Million Years" in an uneven voice; obviously a plant, she breaks down & cries into hankie; MSs people in audience taking notice, looking aghast, Kitty's mother looking sad & dejected, then perking up when Major suggests she try again; MS/CUs Kitty thanking Major, singing again with pluck, moxie. MS audience applauding. MS John Jewell frantically playing the banjo. Dissolve to MSs 13 year old Bobby Blakeman thanking Major Bowes, singing "Did Your Mother Come From Ireland."
Discover America
Includes aerials of scenics and landmarks all over the United States, urban, rural, national parks, and more. Beautiful.
Ocean Fliers Lost
Shaky blurry light in contrast and imagery ULM, CHARLES THOMAS PHILLIPE (1897-1934) Of French blood but Australian birth (Melbourne)he was taller than most. He enlisted in the A.I.F. at 17 and served in Egypt and Gallipoli but was repatriated wounded. Enlisting under another name in 1917 and went to the Western Front where he was wounded again. He flew with Kingsford Smith on a 'Round Australia'record flight, then a trans-Pacific flight to Australia from America in 1928. Co-founder of A.N.A..He also flew extensively in his own right in "Faith in Australia". Co-founder of Australian National Airways Ltd., he was lost at sea without trace flying an Airspeed Envoy "Stella Australis"in December 1934. Plane takes off, airborne.
Xmas Trees Ready
Shaky blurry light in contrast and imagery Xmas Trees Ready - Men sawing down Xmas trees.
Florida Flyer Wrecked
Shaky light in contrast and imagery Florida Flyer Wrecked - train derailment, twisted steel.