SCRAPBOOK: RAYNER/TAKEUCHI ALBUMS COLL#20

 

PHOTO SCRAPBOOK
FRAN RAYNER/BEVERLEY TAKEUCHI PHOTO ALBUM COLLECTION #20, CBC VANCOUVER

The photographs presented in this new Scrapbook form the 20th collection gleaned from the photo albums created and maintained by Fran Rayner and subsequently Beverley Takeuchi during their collective years with CBC Vancouver.

1.  Host Ian McTaggart-Cowan in the studio set for The Living Sea.  The photo, dated May 9, 1957, was taken by photographer Alvin Armstrong.  The Living Sea was a half-hour series which focused on plant and animal marine life.  The programs aired from 1957 to 1962 and were produced by Ken Bray with set design by David Jones.  Repeat telecasts were later supervised by Tom Connachie.

2.  George Vipond  (TV Technican) and John Bismeyer (Cameraman) with the camera used for live coverage of the Ripple Rock explosion in 1958.  They’re standing outside the Alberni Street side of  the CBC Vancouver studios at 1200 West Georgia Street.  Ripple Rock’s underwater twin peaks were a hazard in Seymour Narrows (B.C.’s Discovery Passage just off the coast of Campbell River, Vancouver Island), perhaps first recorded by Captain George Vancouver who described the area as “one of the vilest stretches of water in the world”.  On April 5, 1958, “the world’s largest non-nuclear peacetime explosion” to remove the top of the peaks was one of the first live coast-to-coast television broadcasts of an event in Canada and the on-air commentators were Ted Reynolds and Bill Herbert.

3.  Producer Jack Thorne during production of Friday Island in 1963.  The half-hour comedy/drama series was televised from October 19, 1962 to April 12, 1963 with scripts by Peter Statner, Christine Best and Peter Power.  Stories centered on the Granger family, originally from Ottawa, who had visited the fictional Friday Island off the coast of British Columbia and decided to stay and open a tourist lodge.  Lillian Carlson and Wally Marsh portrayed Mom and Dad Granger. Mark de Courcey and Kevin Burchett played their two sons, Stephen and Tadpole respectively.  Other family members were James Onley (Grandpa), Rae Brown (Aunt Sophie), Mildred Franklin (Aunt Vi), Reagh Cooper (Boomer), and Niki Lipman (Barbara).  Rounding out the regular cast were Robert Clothier as the merchant Archie and Barbara Tremain as the postmistress, Annabelle

4.  Ted Reynolds (Sportscaster), Bob Switzer (Announcer/Program Host) and Mike Crammond (Outdoors Columnist, Vancouver Province newspaper) proudly show off their catch in 1964.  The three were together for a one-hour CBC Network Television Special entitled Oncorhynchus, produced from Vancouver by Al Vitols.  The documentary about salt water sport fishing on the Pacific coast was filmed at Desolation Sound and the Inside Passage.  Roy Luckow (Cameraman) and Norm Rosen (Film Sound) were the location crew.

5.  Reg Jessup was Supervisor of Information Services (later Public Relations and more recently Communications Department) for CBC British Columbia from 1956 until his retirement in 1979.  He had come to CBC Vancouver from the Langley Times newspaper in 1951 as a News Writer, soon moving into the position of Editor and held the distinction of being the first News Editor of the first television station in B.C.  This photo of Reg was taken in 1965.

6.  Janet Pollock (Stores Clerk), Ib Birkfeldt (Telecine) and Doris Dyck (Film Editor) at a CBC party in 1965.  Doris is now retired and living in the Lower Mainland; Ib passed away on July 7, 1986, just 62 years of age; Janet Pollock retired from CBC in 1981 and passed away at age 88 on September 9, 2004.

7.  Freelance Make-Up Artist Florence Vance with singer Judy Ginn in prep for the The Judy and Jim Show in 1973.  The three-episode series mixed comedy and music with an emphasis on Ukranian culture.  In 1977 a second series of seven episodes under the same title was produced and broadcast.  Bill White produced the 1973 series and Michael Watt the 1977 programs.

8.  Judy Ginn and her brother Jim Walchuk ready to go on set for The Judy and Jim Show in 1973.

9.  Performers Maryann MacDonald, Lorraine Falkner and Ruth Nicol in roaring 20’s costumes for the 50 Year CAPAC Song Special in 1975.  The one-hour program celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Composers, Authors, and Publishing Association of Canada (CAPAC) - a performing rights’ society – and was the first production to be taped in the brand new Studio 40 within CBC Vancouver’s new home at 700 Hamilton Street.  Neil Sutherland was Producer/Director; the exquisite costuming was achieved by the talented imagination and hands of Philip Bailie, Jean Murphy, Beverley Wowchuk, Mary Szigety and Nora Gomez; and makeup was created through the magical artistry of Beverley Takeuchi, Jacky Wilkinson, Maurice Parkhurst, Yvonne Bourgeois and Tami Tasaka.

10. Performers Jeff Hyslop and Brent Carver appear in the 1975 CAPAC Special segment on the 1920’s.  Other cast members included Barbara Barsky, Charlene Brandolini, Terry Frewer, Marek Norman, Bill Reiter, Martin Short, Victor Stewart, and Melinda Whitaker.  The Special was hosted by Gordon Pinsent.

11. Make-Up Artist Beverley Takeuchi begins to transform Weatherman Phil Reimer’s appearance for the CBC Vancouver Open House in 1980.  This is Phil as we knew him.  By the time Beverley was finished she had transformed him into an elderly man who defied identification.

12. Production Assistant Paddy Moore with performers Betty Phillips and Jan Rubes in Kalman, produced by Neil Sutherland in 1982 in CBC Vancouver’s Studio 40.  Paddy Moore says, “I was in awe of Jan Rubes. Had met him and his wife Susan in my previous life in theatre.  Jan was an amazing ‘artiste’ of the ‘olde’ performance school.”  Paddy added that Kalman was an elegant production with music that was “accessible” and meaningful to the audience and that Producer Neil Sutherland was brilliant.  Georgina Zadak was Script Assistant.  Emmerich Kalman (1882-1953) composed  many beautiful operettas including The Gay Hussars, Her Soldier Boy, Miss Springtime, The Riviera Girl, The Gipsy Princess, A Little Dutch Girl, Countess Maritza and A Kiss in Spring.

13. David Tarrant (Host) and Al Vitols (Producer) for The Canadian Gardener in Kugenhof  Gardens, Holland in June, 1985 with show guests.

14. David Tarrant (Host) with Bob Switzer (Host) at the Canadian Gardener Open House in 1985 in the upper level garden area of the CBC Vancouver plaza.

15. Hugh Henderson (Cameraman), Linda Cheng (Production Assistant) and ? (could that be Chris Stear?) during Canadian Gardener taping in 1989 on the CBC Vancouver plaza.

16. Karen Swantje (Production Assistant), Bert Hilckman (Set Decorator), Dick France (EFP Sound Technician) and Al Vitols (Producer) during a 1989 production taping of Canadian Gardener.

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