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035 $a(OCoLC)459796991
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050 00 $aPN1992.3.U5$bK52 1995
082 00 $a791.45/0973$220
100 1 $aKisselhoff, Jeff.
245 14 $aThe box :$ban oral history of television, 1929-1961 /$cJeff Kisselhoff.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c1995.
263 $a9511
300 $axvi, 592 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aGuaranteed to keep readers up long after prime time, The Box re-creates the old-time TV years through more than three hundred interviews with those who invented, manufactured, advertised, produced, directed, wrote, and acted in them.
520 8 $aHere are household names and fascinating unknowns, from the brilliant RCA scientists, flying paper airplanes off the top of the Empire State Building, to Uncle Miltie, Rod Steiger, Imogene Coca, Studs Terkel, Edward R. Murrow, and Paddy Chayefsky. Go behind the scenes of many of television's classic shows and learn whether Father really did know best, and laugh at the hilarious low-budget antics of Captain Video (remember the opticon scillometer?).
520 8 $aHear about the great pioneering stations in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, where the horses ate the microphones on TV's only live daily western, and finally get the truth about the quiz show scandals that rocked America.
650 0 $aTelevision broadcasting$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112749
650 0 $aTelevision producers and directors$zUnited States$vInterviews.
650 0 $aTelevision actors and actresses$zUnited States$vInterviews.
650 0 $aTelevision personalities$zUnited States$vInterviews.
852 00 $bglx$hPN1992.3.U5$iK52 1995