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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 ...
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.
It played a three-hour commercial-free video loop of flaming wood, accompanied by holiday music, to serve as a “Christmas card to our viewers,” according to a history of the “Yule Log ...
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.
"A quiet afternoon watching the fireplace, or as Al Roker, Sr. used to say, the fireplace is watching me@m," wrote Roker in the caption. View the original article to see embedded media.
The song reached No. 17 on the Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart and No. 26 on the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs chart. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] Frankin's rendition was produced by Maurice White and appears on the 2007 tribute album Interpretations: Celebrating the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire , [ 1 ] and was released as the lead single to promote the album.
The video begins with a newly married couple entering their 1940s-style kitchen, and shows events in their domestic life over the next four decades, including the addition and growth of their children and grandchildren, the 1950s housewife burning dinner, a distraught 1960s housewife whose disinterested husband and children won't eat her ...
The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [1] It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. [2] A video was produced for the song, featuring Campbell sitting by a fireplace composing a letter – presumably of his thoughts and feelings for his girlfriend, who has left him.