The people and village of Newcastle are the stars of this opening sequence for 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly'.
The opening sequence for this episode of 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly' features the people and village of Newcastle in County Tipperary. Last-minute adjustments are made to a bride's veil while well-dressed guests arrive for the wedding ceremony. Elsewhere in the village children are playing, a teenager weighs turf and a van driver makes bread deliveries. Many people wave happily at the camera operator.
This episode of 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 6 February 1980.
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, around one minute in 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 unfailingly tuned in, just in case it was the turn for their town or village to have its few minutes of fame.
