Chowchilla kidnapping: compilation reel I
About This Item
A KPIX news compilation from July 1976, assembled by KPIX producers, featuring an edit of several newsfilm reels covering the Chowchilla kidnapping story. Includes: aerial views of the site in a Livermore quarry where school bus driver Ed Ray and 26 students from Dairyland Elementary School were buried alive in a moving truck; an update from the California Rock & Gravel Company, with reporter Bill Schechner; scenes from a community tribute and party to honor school bus driver Ed Ray, with reporter David Fowler and views from outside a preliminary hearing for the accused kidnappers in Chowchilla, Madera County, with reporter Tim Findley Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
This 16mm reversal film print was transferred in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in September 2022.
- Date
- July 1976
- Format
- 16mm color reversal print, with co-magnetic soundtrack
- Digital Format
- mp4 video file
- Genre
- local TV newsfilm
- Copyright Holder
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Duration
- 14:45
- Identifier
- KPIX 147481
- Views
- 1453