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The Yule Log was created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, president and chief executive officer of WPIX, Inc. Inspired by an animated Coca-Cola commercial from a year earlier that showed Santa Claus at a fireplace, he envisioned the program as a televised Christmas gift to those residents of New York who lived in apartments and homes without fireplaces.
The program is a film loop of a wood fire burning in a fireplace; an unidentified individual can periodically be seen stoking the fire. It airs free of charge, without any commercial interruptions, compared to US fire logs on local stations in that country which do so.
The film begins as a static shot of a cabin fireplace with burning yule logs, accompanied by holiday music.The cabin has a dark history across the ages, including with its original occupant: an American slave owner named Isaac, who is confronted by his slave, Rosa, when he ashamedly admits that he did not sell Rosa's son William to a kind slave owner as he promised her, but to the cruel and ...
Apple dropped its annual holiday themed ad last week as Christmas is right around the corner. The nearly four-minute video uses "stop-motion animation" to tell a cute story that shows how people ...
Badnjak logs burning in the hearth, Christmas Eve in Dalmatia. As early as Jacob Grimm in the early 19th century, scholars have observed parallels between the South Slavic custom of the Badnjak and the Yule log tradition. [23] As observed by M. E. Durham (1940), the Badnjak is a sapling that is placed on the hearth on Christmas Eve.
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In 1966, WPIX debuted The Yule Log, which combines Christmas music with a film loop of logs burning inside a fireplace. Airing on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas morning initially until 1989, the film was made in 1966 and was shot at Gracie Mansion , with the cooperation of then Mayor John V. Lindsay .
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