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New Orleans Television
by Dominic Massa
New Orleans Television uses close to 200 archival photographs to trace the history of local TV from its earliest days in 1948, with memories of popular programs and personalities from over the past 60 years.
Jim Tolhurst is featured on pages 60 & 61. Thanks, Dominic!
1 9 6 8 -- The Other Side of the Shadow
A WWL-TV Special Project
written by Marilyn Sublette Imwalle
filmed & edited by Jim Tolhurst
narrated by John Pela
produced by Phil Johnson
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented its Special Emmy Citation, the first ever to be awarded, for this moving story of St. Michael's Special School in New Orleans and of the retarded children who go there.
The film focuses on the children, who, with patience and much love are given the foundations of a fruitful life of hope and fulfillment. The program also examines the unique problems faced by parents of retarded children.
-- May 22, 1968 TV Guide.
Awards:
1968 New Orleans Press Club 1st Place Documentary Film
1968 National Academy of Television Arts & Science Emmy Citation Award
WWL-TV invitation announcing first televised broadcast
Local print ad announcing the Emmy Award
TV-Guide ad, May 22, 1968
WWL-TV in-house publication featuring The Other Side of the Shadow's Emmy