The Yankee Story

The Yankee Story

Rejissyor: RKO Teleradio Pictures, Yankee Division. Promotional film for the Yankee network, a network of radio stations in New England with excellent shots of radio production and radio broadcasting. 10:01:38:29 Nice product placement MS “Scan-O-Scope” radio. 10:01:47:07 1950s to 1960s housewife sewing beside “Scan-O-Scope” radio. 10:01:54:00 From elevated angle camera looks down on man between two high-tech looking radios with many knobs dials between speaker box; man turns large knob tuning radio on right. 10:02:00:06 CU old fashioned small radio (Zenith ?) with two tuning knobs, one frequency dial, and one speaker in single rectangular box. 10:02:04:23 Young man in twenties, screwdriver in hand, attentively working in workshop fixing or building radio; tools scattered on table and small old-fashioned radio on work table. 01:02:09:18 CU woman’s elegant hand in white glove carrying by handle very small metallic radio with one dial and red button. 10:02:15:22 Title “The Yankee Story” superimposed over graphic of New England with each state differentiated by color. “Only Yankee serves all of New England” superimposed over New England graphic with lines animated spreading from Boston in 360 degrees. 10:02:47:21 CU hand plugging in 1/4 inch cable into row of inputs. 10:02:53:08 Man in from of wall of modular electronic, smoking cigarette, patches quarter inch cables into bank of inputs. 10:03:14:01 Man in suit point finger at globe, turns and looks away from globe. 10:03:18:03 CU Man in suit and tie faces camera “Pardon me if I may interrupt. Before we get saturated with statistics I’d like to make perfectly clear one very important point. Whatever New England might be statistically, New England is people [raising eyebrows]. So if we are going to understand the area we’d better meet some of the people and found out what they think about the place they live.” 10:03:44:10 MS young brown-haired professor drawing with chalk on blackboard long arc over drawing of New England; professor stops drawing, turns to camera, and ex

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