- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of the filming of "The Longest Yard" with Burt Reynolds at Central State Prison at Reidsville, 28 December 1973
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lane, Gloria (Journalist)
Reynolds, Burt - Date of Original:
- 1973-12-28
- Subject:
- Motion pictures
Actors and actresses
Football--United States
Prisons--Georgia
Prisoners
Longest yard (1974)
Motion picture industry--Georgia - People:
- Reynolds, Burt
Lane, Gloria (Journalist) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Tattnall County, Reidsville, 32.08686, -82.1179
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips, Burt Reyolds is filming "The Longest Yard" at Central State Prison at Reidsville. Reporter Gloria Lane introduces the clip and addresses how more movies are filming in Georgia. A scene of a football game is shown being filmed. There is also a brief interview with Burt Reynolds with Gloria Lane. They talk about how the football scenes contain actual hits for authenticity. A prison worker is also interviewed and talks about the positive impact the filming has on the prison.
Reporter: Lane, Gloria (Journalist)
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn25611
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn25611
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn25611
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn25611/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn25611, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of the filming of "The Longest Yard" with Burt Reynolds at Central State Prison at Reidsville, 28 December 1973, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1998, 50:39/52:46, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 2 mins., 7 secs.): color, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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