KNTV Channel 11 News Reels September 22, 1979

Description: Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news on October 16, 1966. The accompanying script, read by the newscaster, provides details of the stories and completes the broadcast, and can be obtained from History San Jose. Segment 1 (sound): Start of the Monterey Grand Prix Can-Am race at Laguna Seca, with extended footage of the race. Segment 2 (silent, color): NASA film of astronauts getting into what appears to be part of a space rocket or landing module. The broadcast script does not include a story that matches the footage. Segment 3 (silent): Workers at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Office stuffing envelopes with test ballots and election material, and assembling automatic voting devices. Broadcast script reads, "With just about 3 weeks to go until election, the Registrar of Voters Office is getting into high gear. Workers are busy mechanically stuffing 386,384 envelopes...During the week, some 36 tons of election material will be mailed out at a cost of 13,000 dollars. In another room, a team of workers is assembling the Votomatic voting devices. 4800 of the IBM machines are undergoing final checks before being sent out to the county's 934 precincts. 1966 will mark the first all-mechanical election. Even the absentee ballots will be counted mechanically..." 10/16/66 A-C 623