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This is it.....The Highest Award you can receive in Television.....Its from the National Academy of Television Arts&Sciences..
It is the Governor\'s Award
Posed atop a rectangular base is the iconic winged woman holding an atom, symbolizing the relationship between art and science intrinsic to television.
18 Karat gold plated Award measures 11.25\'\' in height, on a rectangular base measuring 5.25\'\' across and 3\'\' deep. Weighs 3 lbs. 9 oz.
Plate reads....The Boston/New England Chapter of the National Television Academy Honors Rex Trailer with the Governors Award for a distinguished career of broadcast excellence....
On the rectangular base reads The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences......
Comes with the original stickers on the cloth base........
****Please note that the iconic winged woman has broken off near the bottom...It fits back together on its own as pictured.....It can be glued but would recommend it be soldered back together....Some tarnishing on the top of rectangular box and also on the bottom half of the winged woman......Picture taken on without help....Could use a good polishing
NATIONAL ACADEMYof TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES
The Governors Award, the highest award presented by the ATAS, honors the achievements of an individual, company or organization whose works stand out with the immediacy of current achievement.
Own a rare piece of television history.
TheNational Academy of Television Arts & SciencesorNATASwas created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television. Headquartered in New York, NATAS\'s membership is national and the organization has local chapters around the country. It was also known as theNational Television Academyuntil 2007.
One of its past presidents,Don DeFore, was instrumental in arranging for theEmmy Awardsto be broadcast on national TV for the first time on March 7, 1955. Other past presidents include John Cannon, Peter Price andFrank Radice.
NATAS distributesEmmy Awardsin various categories including \"Daytime\", \"Sports\", \"News and Documentary\", and \"Public Service\".
NATAS also supervised the primetime Emmy Awards until a split between the East and West memberships in the 1970s led to theAcademy of Television Arts & Sciencesleaving NATAS. ATAS supervises the primetime and Los Angeles area Emmys, while NATAS is in charge of the other Emmy honors. In 2007, the organization spawned a peer organization dedicated to new media, called the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences (NAMAS).
NATAS publishes its own quarterlymagazine,Television Quarterly
Rex Trailor............Rexford \"Rex\" Trailer(September 16, 1928 – January 9, 2013) was aBoston-based regionaltelevisionpersonality, broadcast pioneer,cowboyandCountry and Westernrecording artist. He is best known as the host of the long-running children\'s television showBoomtown.
Rex Trailer grew up just outside of Fort Worth, Texas. He spent his summers on his grandfather’s fifty-acrequarter horseranch in nearbyThurber, Texas. There at age four or five Trailer rode his first horse, which was named \"Bamboo\".
The hired hands on the ranch wererodeocowboys. One of these men taught him trick roping, one taught him how to handle a bull whip, and another taught him how to play the guitar. Trailer recalls, \"All those cowboys were good at what they taught me, but after I learned each (skill), I was the only one of the bunch who could do all three!\"By age 11, the student had begun performing with his mentors in Texas rodeos. Trailer\'s grandfather only warned the cowboys that they shouldn\'t let him ride \"rough stock\", meaning the broncos and bulls.
As a young man in Texas, Trailer found other opportunities to employ his skills. At age 16 he started his own band, \"The Ramblin\' Rustlers,\" which performed locally. \"I was always a ham who loved to perform,\" he said. \"I could always play guitar, sing and tell stories.\" Trailer also began calling square dances.
At 18 years old, Trailer left Texas for the national rodeo circuit. \"I traveled the country a little bit,\" Trailer reminisced. \"The audiences got a kick out of a teenager being out there and trick riding and roping and bull whips and singing.\"
In 1948 Trailer was working in the traveling rodeo when he met Western movie starGabby Hayesbackstage atMadison Square Garden. That meeting would proved to be life-changing. An impressed Hayes hired him to work at hisCatskillssummer ranch for kids as entertainment director. Rex was the oldest child in a large family, and so was already practiced at engaging the young ones. Hayes, recognizing Trailer\'s rare natural talent over the course of that summer, encouraged him to break into the fledgling world of children\'s television as an on-air personality.
Television Pioneer............Around 1947 Trailer, not yet out of his teens, had gone to work for theDuMont Television NetworkinNew York City. He started out as a scenery painter, but quickly rose to the position of production coordinator, and soon after to assistant director. Then in 1949, acting on Hayes\' advice to seek on-air work, he responded to a casting call for a cowboy who could do stunts; Trailer overwhelmed the competition and became the host of the network\'sOky Doky Ranch(formerlyThe Adventures of Oky Doky).The show featured Rex Trailer as a cowboy and Oky Doky, a cowboy puppet, operated byDayton Allen.
The Oky Doky series was successful, but it ended when its production company went bankrupt. Dayton Allen went to NBC and soon joined the cast of the nascentHowdy Doodyshow. Meanwhile, Trailer heard that the Westinghouse TV station in Philadelphia (WPTZ) needed a host for a Western-style children\'s show. Rex Trailer and his horse \"Gold Rush\" moved to Philadelphia and hosted a number of television shows from 1950 until 1956. \"Ridin’ the Trail with Rex Trailer\" featured him as the host for movie Westerns on Saturday mornings, with some live action segments featuring Rex spliced in. \"They sort of built me into the movie,\" Trailer explained. \"The kids loved it because they never knew where or when I was going to show up in the action.\" He also had a daily 15-minute program featuring songs, games, dances, lore and lessons. This was the only one of the shows that was just Rex Trailer and the kids; called \"Hi-Noon with Rex Trailer,\" it ran from 1950 to 1955, achieving high ratings as it entertained the kids who came home from school for lunch. \"Rex Trailer\'s Ranch House\" was a half-hour variety show on Saturday nights. With its self-explanatory title, \"Saddlebag O\' Songs\" was yet another show he hosted in that era.
Recording Artist...........Trailer always seemed to have more than one \"iron in the fire\". Even as his television career was blossoming, Trailer found success in recordingCountry and WesternMusic for ABC-Paramount Records, among other labels. At one time, around 1950, he recorded withBill Haleyand his Saddlemates, who gained fame later asBill Haley and His Comets. In 1955, \"Cowboys Don\'t Cry\" and a song later used regularly on theBoomtownshow, \"Hoofbeats\", were released together in the 78 rpm and 45 rpm vinyl record formats. Trailer released at least two 331⁄3rpm 12\" vinyl albums, as \"Rex Trailer and the Playboys\", one titledCountry and Westernin 1960 and one titledGood Old Country Music, released by Crown records (CLP 5484 monaural), date unknown. Another album with some overlap in playlists also exists, by \"Rex Trailer and his Cow Hands\", titledWestern Favorites, which was released in 1961 on Spin-O-Rama records.
In his later years, Trailer offered aCDthrough his website, calledAll the Best. \"Boomtown\", \"Hoofbeats\", \"Cowboy\'s Don\'t Cry\", \"Pow Wow the Pony\" and other songs from the 1950s and 1960s were included, along with some more recently recorded songs. Trailer recorded introductions for each track.
Trailer was a featured guest on the 2002 eponymousNate Gibson and the Gashouse Gangalbum. He played and sang on two songs written by Gibson, \"Immaculate Confection\" and \"The Remote to the T.V.\" The former song is a tribute toNecco Waferscandy.
The Philadelphia station that employed Trailer was sold toNBC. The young star, with short time remaining on his contract toWestinghouse Broadcasting, was presented a choice of two Westinghouse station cities as his next stop:Clevelandor Boston. In 1956, with a wealth of broadcasting experience and not yet out of his twenties, Rex Trailer chose the move to Boston to host a new weekend-morning children\'s showBoomtownonWBZ-TV.
The show, named by Rex after the title of aClark Gablefilm he saw on TV at the time, had a format which combined elements of the other shows he had done. Though the original commitment was only for a few months, this series proved to be his greatest success, airing through 1974.Boomtownestablished Trailer as a major (and enduring) local celebrity within the signal of Boston\'s TV Channel 4. Trailer performed songs while playing guitar, and showed off his authentic cowboy skills with horse-riding tricks, rope tricks, skilled use of the bull-whip, and shooting (though he banished weapons from the show after JFK’s assassination in 1963). He led the studio audience of children in sing-alongs and contests of skill, and introduced cartoons and other children\'s programming segments. The young viewers \"adored him for his consistent kindness and competence.\"Trailer was aided by many guests, such as John MacFarland (for \"Critter Corner\"), and by his varioussidekicksover the years, including \"Pablo\" from 1956 to 1967 (played by actor Richard Kilbride), then \"Cactus Pete\" from 1967 to 1969 (played by Terrance Currier), and \"Sgt. Billy\" (played by actor Bill O\'Brien).
Rex Trailer\'s fame, good name, and crowd-pleasing talents made him a dependable draw at his many personal appearances in the area. He was also able to team with a local travel agency in chaperoning children on an annual series of large-scale school-vacation trips to California tourist attractions.
Trailer was recognized as a strong advocate for children with disabilities.In 1961, Trailer (and Gold Rush) led an actualwagon trainacross the state of Massachusetts ending at the State House in Boston, to call public attention to the needs of the mentally retarded, and the organization The Arc (then called the Association for Retarded Citizens). Trailer insisted on including children with disabilities in his show, and is said to have been one of the first to do so.In addition, Trailer also encouraged his young fans to hold neighborhood charity fund-raisers called \"Backyard Carnivals Against Dystrophy\", offering how-to kits on air. As a result of such efforts, Trailer came to be perceived as the \"cowboy with a conscience\" on and off the air.
Shooting live three-hour shows in the Brighton studio every Saturday and Sunday morning left Trailer little opportunity at that time to contemplate his place in television history. \"We just did it. It was a blast,\" he said, adding that the show was the most enjoyable thing he\'d ever done, because its genuineness made the fun contagious. \"We were doing educational TV before there was educational TV,\" Trailer asserted. \"Children need role models. I wanted them to understand their obligation to take care of each other.\"
WhenBoomtownended, Trailer briefly put his Western costume aside and hostedEarth Lab,a syndicated science series that aired across the country until 1979. He was part of the successful \"I Love New York\" tourism campaign, playing a New Hampshire fisherman in a 1982 TV commercial.Trailer had a minor but memorable role as a doctor in the 1990Cher/Winona RydermovieMermaids, saying to Ryder\'s character, \"Then why did you think you were pregnant? You\'re still a virgin!\"Later, he co-hostedBoomtown Revisitedon Continental Cablevision in the early 1990s.
Besides his cowboy, musical and broadcasting skills, Trailer had other talents. He was a licensed pilot, having flown fixed wing craft including theBoeing 747as well ashelicopters. He would often arrive at personal appearances at the controls of a helicopter, sometimes seasonally accompanied bySanta Claus. Once, Trailer was flying withBozo the Clown(Frank Avruch) in his helicopter; engine trouble forced them down in a Western Massachusetts field, where they were greeted by incredulous children who had followed their descent.Trailer owned a helicopter shuttle company in the 1960s and 1970s that at its peak transported 500-600 passengers a day. He was an accomplishedsky diver,scuba diverandwater skier. Trailer also worked as atravel agentand was a certifiedhypnotherapist.
Later Life.........In his later years, Rex Trailer continued to work in the television industry. He owned a video production company in Waltham, Massachusetts, and taught on-air performance atEmerson Collegein Boston, both until his death. Among his past students are WHDH-TV Channel 7 news anchor Jonathan Hall, Fox 25 morning news hostGene Lavanchy, andEntertainment TonightcorrespondentMaria Menounos.He made regular personal appearances, and performed on occasion, including sets at Boston rock clubs in his later years as a special guest. Rex Trailer was also a perennial participant inNatickMassachusetts\' annual July 4 parade, in which he rode Goldrush. Trailer’s initial association with the parade ran from 1955 into the early 1980s; Trailer revived the tradition beginning in the early 1990s, continuing it each year until 2012.In 2013, he was named “grand marshal in memoriam” by Natick Friends of the 4th.
On December 10, 2006, Rex Trailer performed several songs (including theBoomtowntheme and some of his own Christmas songs) and signed freeautographsfor hundreds offansatThat\'s EntertainmentinWorcester, Massachusetts. The event was part of Trailer\'s official \"50th Anniversary ofBoomtown\" celebration tour. ThenWorcester MayorTim Murrayofficially proclaimed it \"Rex Trailer\'sBoomtownDay\" throughout the city to mark the occasion, and Worcester City Councilor Frederick C. Rushton read the proclamation to the crowd.
In 2011, Trailer donated his three .45-caliber revolvers with staghorn handles to theMassachusetts State PoliceMuseum inGrafton, Massachusetts. Just prior, the gun shop where Trailer was storing them had gone out of business. The guns very nearly went on the sale block before Trailer andMichael Bavarolearned of the situation and retook possession.
Comedian Jay Leno eulogized his boyhood hero: “I’ve met a lot of people, a lot of important people, but no bigger star than Rex
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