On the set of the 1950s TV series "One Man's Family"

By 1951, for 19 years the color of the San Francisco locale has been a hallmark of the radio story "One Man's Family". That the program was actually broacast from Hollywood didn't matter much to the audience or the producers. On television it's not so easy.

To preserve the San Francisco flavor in the video version - staged inside a converted movie studio in New York - the show's originator, Carlton E. Morse, called on photography for help. In San Francisco, photographer Ray Moulin shoots stills and movies.

In New York, these pictures are combined with actors and simple but imaginative sets to bridge the 3,000-mile gap.

The TV audience sees the familiar characters - in New York - but against settings unmistakably San franciscan, such as inside a cable car moving up the steep hills, in a speedboat in the bay, or in a living room with Golden Gate bridge seen through a window.