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The Host: Leahy - Horror Host Pioneer, 1986 reworked
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In 1986, while Jeff Kilian was a film student at Wichita State University, one of his student projects was creating a documentary on Tom Leahy Jr. Leahy was a local Wichita television personality, who appear not only as a station announcer, but also as program hosts on the late night program called “Nightmare” (horror movie program) and also during the afternoons as Major Astro (children’s cartoon program). In this documentary Kilian interview Tom Leahy while he was still alive, included (at the time) rare kinescopes of the Nightmare program. He even got another Wichita television host Jim (Ol’ Flick) Erickson to be the projects narrator. Demolition Kitchen Video has had a VHS copy of the video in our collection for years and we finally digitized the tape in 2006 to DVD. This version takes the DVD dub, presents it in a re-edited configuration, adds additional material, and restores any graphics or problems in the original. The DVD dub video was also reprocessed by running it through an AI software, to attempt to improve the low-resolution of the copy. An update, the original tape has been rediscovery but is on 3/4” tape, at this time we don’t have access to a deck to create a new d…
Directors & creators
Demolition Kitchen Video
Subjects
Jeff Kilian, Kilian Enterprises, Tom Leahy Jr., Tom Leahy, Nightmare, Horror Host, Horror Host Television, Horror, Demolition Kitchen Video
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