Take a spin around 1975 downtown London in this rare footage from CBC’s archives [Video]

It’s March 1975, the Eagles are topping the Canadian charts with Best of My Love, and a CBC film crew is following around the staff of London’s TV station for a documentary about the business of television news.

Rare footage from CBC’s archives, filmed by Rudolph Kovanic for the series Dollars and Sense, provides a glimpse at downtown in the mid-1970s, and the inner workings of CFPL-TV, Canada’s second commercial TV station, as it prepares the daily news.

Now known as CTV 2, CFPL-TV was a CBC affiliate from its founding by London Free Press owner Walter Blackburn in 1953, until the late 1980s.

Rare silent footage from CBC’s archive shows what London’s downtown core looked like in March 1975. The footage, taken for the program Dollars and Sense, also shows CFPL-TV reporter Tim Laing and photographers Jack Schenck and Bill Young at work gathering the day’s news.

The silent …