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Title:
Channel 13 News B-Roll — Community, Emergency, and Civic Life in West Virginia and Kentucky
REEL ID:
L063R004
RUN TIME:
00:22:54
Description:
This extensive B-roll reel originates from the Channel 13 News Charleston News Bureau and documents a wide range of local news coverage, community events, and institutional activity across West Virginia, Kentucky, and surrounding regions. Shot for television news packages, the footage reflects the visual backbone of regional broadcast journalism—capturing unscripted moments used to contextualize reported stories.
The reel includes interviews with local officials conducted by on-camera reporters, along with stand-ups filmed outside courthouses and downtown buildings. Civic and educational life appears throughout, with scenes from classrooms at Wade H. Clay School and Midway School, students working at desks, and coverage of vocational training at the Putnam County Vocational Technical Center, where men are shown working on cars and construction projects.
Sports coverage features prominently, including Marshall University football practices and game footage, with crowds filling the stands. Additional campus material documents Morehead State University graduation ceremonies. Construction and development stories appear with footage of the Holiday Inn Complex under construction, cranes at work, and crews operating heavy equipment such as Bobcat loaders.
Emergency and public safety coverage forms a significant portion of the reel. Firefighters respond to a house fire as fire trucks and emergency vehicles line residential streets. Medical emergencies unfold with ambulances, stretchers, and healthcare professionals assisting patients, while Mason Rescue Squad personnel are seen in action. Law enforcement appears in multiple contexts, including Kentucky State Police activity, police officers on scene, and an Army helicopter landing during a news event.
Community and human-interest stories are interwoven throughout: an elderly man celebrates a birthday, Boy Scouts receive awards, and children watch firefighters at work. Religious protesters, KKK, hold signs opposing school curriculum changes, while public outreach segments include National Library Week promotions encouraging free library card registration and literacy messaging such as “Reading Is for Everyone.” Additional civic footage includes a United Way of Kanawha Valley event, check presentations, people gathered near monuments, and conference room meetings with documents spread across tables.
Judicial and government material includes courtroom footage, courtroom sketch drawings, interviews with military officials, and reporters covering stories in Washington, D.C. The reel concludes with varied urban and rural visuals—downtown businesses, churches, neighborhood homes, country roads bordered by cornfields, traffic scenes emphasizing seatbelt safety, airplanes at an airport, liquor store shelves, and miscellaneous quick-cut shots typical of daily news gathering.
Together, this reel serves as a comprehensive visual archive of late-20th-century regional television journalism, preserving the raw footage behind broadcast stories that shaped public understanding of community life, public safety, education, and local governance.
Tags:
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