Fonds med-487 - Stan Weiler fonds

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Stan Weiler fonds

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CA MED med-487

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32 cm of textual records -- 671 photographs -- 9 magnetic tape audio recordings -- 8 8mm and 16mm film reels -- 6 transcription discs -- 1 L.P. record

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Stan Weiler was a long time reporter and announcer for CHAT radio and Television. As well, he was an active member of the Kiwanis club and a well-known musician. His wife, Eva, worked as a stenographer for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The couple lived at 25-8th Ave. SW.

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Fonds consist of CHAT Television and Radio materials including sales correspondence for Old Dutch Kids Bid’s, television advertising sales campaign materials with photos, advertising for CHAT TV programming, annual statistics, “Year in Review” script, interview notes of Mayor Ted Grimm & Aldermen, hand written notes on murder trial, film cues & voice overs, Suffield experimental station press release, Teletype news reports for Apollo 11 moon landings, mideast truce, Vietnam war, typed daily news summary, citizen rights to essential services, and newspaper clippings; personal writings including Poem about City Hall face lift, and a lyrical essay on Medicine Hat Junior college; Programs, invitations, and brochures such as Redcliff industrial promotion brochure (1914); code of cooperation between physicians, heallth care professionals and the media, South Alberta Light Horse regiment program, various invitations and brochures, United Way campaigning brochure, and a Medicine Hat visitors guide brochure; photographic materials including 304 Photographs & negatives re: local people places and events; 224 slides of images from around Medicine Hat including people, events and scenery; audiovisual materials including audio recordings re: opening of Suffield experimental station, P.M. Diefenbaker at Medicine Hat College, Y.M.C.A. opening, Chamber of Commerce history, Orville Kope & Doug Burgess interview, 8 & 16 mm film reels re: Redcliff parade, S.A.L.H. parade, Tiger Talk program, Macdonald, Selma, & Henning, as well as transcription disks re: award winning Melody Maids & Male voice choir (1951-52) and an L.P. Record of “The Shandelles”.

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Includes 671 photographs, 9 magnetic tape audio recordings, 8 8 & 16 mm film reels, 6 transcription disks and 1 L.P. record

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Gift of Stan Weiler family

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  • The material is in English.

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CHAT TV, Transcription disks in multimedia holdings, M2004.4

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Record No. M2004.12;P 0322;P 0989<br><br>

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As a member of the local media, Stan Weiler was a witness to and involved with many of the historical events in the fond.

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