CBS Sunday Morning - "The Metric System" (With Fuzzy Credit) (2012)

Here are some clips from CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood that used one of our videos. Includes:

"Almanac" segment of the events of February 12th, with pertinent photos, film and video clips, and descriptions of the following:

- 1973: Ohio introduces the metric system in its highway signs, showing distances in kilometers as well as miles; a clip of a school lesson about the metric system is then shown, followed by the ultimately ill-fated attempt by the U.S. Metric Board (in existence from 1975 to 1982) to sell it to this country through PSAs (including using this footage from us), a 1976 Saturday Night Live sketch satirizing the push (with Dan Aykroyd), and a film clip of customers at a butcher shop, but the public still stood by the old English measuring system. Also seen are the 1999 crash-landing of the Mars climate orbiter and a 2003 Popular Science issue that listed metric system advocates as #11 in the list of worst jobs in science.

End credits (accompanied by Wynton Marsalis' rendition of Gottfried Reiche's "Abblasen," the long-running Sunday Morning theme):

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Glen Campbell footage provided by Research Video, Inc.
A&M Records
British Movietone - Absolutely Wild Visuals
The Courier-Journal - Louisville, Kentucky
Denver International Airport
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - White House Historical Association
KIRO-TV - Seattle, WA
Legislative Library of Manitoba
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television
PBS Soundstage
University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections
Winnipeg Free Press News
Wolfgang's Vault

Sunday Morning Theme Performed by Wynton Marsalis

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This is followed by an "Instant Replay" of a still of the credit where MCCTv is listed.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 12th 2012 (main story) and Sunday, February 19th 2012 (end credits). (they forgot to put the credit in during the week before due to last-minute show changes to cover the death of Whitney Houston)

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