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New Website to Showcase WSAZ Archive Video

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Posted: 4:41 PM Jan 7, 2008
Last Updated: 4:41 PM Jan 7, 2008
Reporter: Kallie Cart
Email Address: kallie.cart@wsaz.com

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A trip down memory lane is now at your fingertips. The Marshall University Library just launched a new website called 50 Years Ago Today: As Seen on WSAZ-TV News. The website will showcase a new clip every day -- and it's all old WSAZ video dating back to 1952.

Andrew Earles who is in charge of digitizing the WSAZ news footage says it’s a tedious process. There is 1.68 million feet of 16mm film that has to be converted, and that’s not including video which came into play after 1982. And once the film is digitized it has to be cataloged and put on-line.

So far 15 years of video have been archived; including news coverage of the Buffalo Creek Disaster, the Silver Bridge Collapse, and the Marshall University Plane Crash. The University hopes to have all 50 years of film digitized and on-line within the next two years. You can take a look at the old news clips at:
http://www.marshall.edu/50yearsago.

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Posted by: pauline on Aug 2, 2008 at 07:15 AM
would like to see film of John F. Kennedy when he came to Wayne, WV as part of his campaign work in fall of 1960. He gave his speech in front of the courthouse here in Wayne... I met and shook hands with him during this visit along with MANY of Wayne High School's staff and student body. Our small town was overflowing with town residents, people from neighboring communities, news media, etc. It was televised on WSAZ Channel 3 that same night on the 11 o'clock news and I was in part of the film when he and I was discussing a "mustard seed necklace" I was wearing. He was pleased to know I knew the Biblical connection of the mustard seed. I have called Channel 3 and have not had any success in obtaining a copy of this film. I am now a grandmother and would really like to share this with my grandchildren who are 16 and 14 years old now. I am willing to pay for a copy of this if it can be obtained.

Posted by: sharon on Jul 31, 2008 at 04:34 PM
when i was a teenager i remember DJ she gave the weather. Where is she now?

Posted by: Jennie on Mar 1, 2008 at 07:04 PM
Madge, Homer Ochsenhirt was my grandmother's cousin. My grandmother died in the mid 1920s, and my dad (who is now 82) has been telling me family stories. Please drop an email and tell me anything you can about Homer O.! Dad asked me to google him, and I found this site.

Posted by: Madge Maupin Haney on Feb 16, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Are there any kinescopes of Jule Huffman and the "Coffee Club" or some such name where they had different entertainers, incl. Mr. Huffman. I sang on the show in a trio called "The Bluegrass Belles" accompanied by Mr. Homer Ochsenhirt of Huntington.

Posted by: george on Feb 15, 2008 at 10:52 AM
what happened to Lawrence H Rogers II? He made it all possible.

Posted by: wayne on Jan 14, 2008 at 09:22 AM
Enjoy the web site with the archives. Any chance that you can post some old commercials of buisnesses and sponsors throughout the area.That have been on the station including some from the 60's up to the 90's.

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These video clips are just a preview of what's to come for the WSAZ history page. Keep checking back for more. Also, start digging through your video, film, and picture archives. If you have anything with, about, or at WSAZ (including Mr. Cartoon footage), we plan to give you an opportunity to share it with everyone.