The people and town of Kinsale are the stars of this opening sequence to ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’.
The picturesque port and fishing town of Kinsale is situated 25 kilometres south of Cork city, at the mouth of the River Bandon. A stroll to the harbour and along the pier provides spectacular views out to sea.
On Pearse Street, a car drives past the Blue Haven Hotel towards the Kinsale museum located in Market Square. The museum is housed in a former market house built in the early 1600s. This building was also a courthouse building from approximately 1705.
This episode of ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 8 November 1973.
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 unfailingly tuned in, just in case it was the turn of their town or village to have its few minutes of fame.