Tallow in Waterford and its people are the stars of this opening sequence to 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly'.
The town of Tallow is in the west of County Waterford near the border with County Cork.
Buildings of note in Tallow are the fifteenth-century Lisfinny Castle, a tower house built by the Earl of Desmond; the Church of the Immaculate Conception built in 1826 and the less historical Tallow Credit Union. A man driving a tractor gives a wave to the film crew. Other people going about their business are less confident in front of the camera.
This episode of 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly' was broadcast on 11 December 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.
