KPRC-TV Film Lab Processes Millionth Foot of Film (1962)

Duration: 1:10

Year Published: 1962

Sound: silent

Description: This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on June 26, 1962, documents the moment when the station’s in-house film lab processed its millionth foot of film. Before videotape and electronic news gathering, television news stations shot coverage on 16mm film—film that had to be chemically processed and manually edited before it could be broadcast. A single day’s news coverage could amount to thousands of feet of film.