Gathering news was very different when Paul first started. The photographer and the reporter went to a location where the photographer would begin shooting shots in a certain order: wide establishing scene down to detailed scenes. The reporter would shoot a stand up or two. Then they’d hop in the car and drive back to the station. The reporter would write their script on the ride back. Once back the developer took all the reels of undeveloped film and put them all together in a long movie reel. Then he would run that reel through the developing equipment. Once the film was fixed and dried it was given back to the photographers who sat at a film bench and edited the film for their package, splicing scenes together, to match the reporter’s script. Then all the finished films were put back together on a single reel and delivered to the engineers in the pit.
The reporter voice overs were recorded by me up in sub at the audio board. I had to make each audio cart perfect with the correct cuts in order and label it. On-air my cue to start playing the next voice over audio cart cut were little holes cut in the upper corner of the film. The end of the film was signaled by three little holes cut into the lower corner of the film.