Ballinure in Tipperary and the people of the village are the stars of this opening sequence to 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly'.
This opening sequence for 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly’ features the village of Ballinure in County Tipperary. Ballinure is situated approximately 14km north of Fethard, 14 km south of Thurles, and 7km west of Killenaule. A woman is seen training a horse, another drives cattle along the road. A group of children play hurling in a field.
This episode of 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 13 November 1974.
Once a week, from June to September, the ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ film crew would arrive at a town or village in any county in Ireland. They would film the people and the place and return to RTÉ where the footage was edited and put to music.
This short film of around one minute’s duration formed part of the opening sequence for that week’s episode. No one knew which location had been chosen, and it was not advertised as part of the programme billings in the RTÉ Guide or newspapers.
So with this in mind, people the length and breadth of the country tuned in religiously, in case it was the turn of their town or village to have its few minutes of fame.
