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Title:
The golden age of television
ISBN:
9781604651782
Edition:
Fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation.
Publication Information:
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (478 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (34 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
General Note:
A booklet featuring an essay by curator Ron Simon and his extensive liner notes on each program.

No time for sergeants based on the novel by Mac Hyman. Bang the drum slowly from the book by Mark Harris. The comedian from a novelette by Ernest Lehman.

Originally broadcast on television between 1953-1958.

Features: commentaries by directors John Frankenheimer, Delbert Mann, Ralph Nelson, and Daniel Petrie ; interviews with select cast and crew, including Frankenheimer, Andy Griffith, Julie Harris, Kim Hunter, Richard Kiley, Piper Laurie, Nancy Marchand, Jack Palance, Cliff Robertson, Mickey Rooney, Carol Serling, Rod Steiger, and Mel Tormé. Booklet featuring an essay by curator Ron Simon and his extensive liner notes on each program.

Kinescopes of the original live productions; curated by PBS for the series The golden age of television.
Contents:
Marty / Patterns / No time for sergeants / Wind from the South / Bang the drum slowly / Requiem for a heavyweight / Comedian / Days of wine and roses
Added Corporate Author:
Added Uniform Title:
Goodyear television playhouse (Television program). Marty.

United States Steel hour (Television program). No time for sergeants.

United States Steel hour (Television program). Wind from the south.

United States Steel hour (Television program). Bang the drum slowly.

Playhouse 90. Requiem for a heavyweight.

Playhouse 90. Comedian.

Playhouse 90. Days of wine and roses.
Added Title:
Marty.

Patterns.

No time for sergeants.

Wind from the south.

Bang the drum slowly.

Requiem for a heavyweight.

Comedian.

Days of wine and roses.
Summary:
"The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays" constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality drama to all of America"--Container.
System Details:
DVD, NTSC ; DOLBY DIGITAL MONO.
Language Note:
CLOSED-CAPTIONED.
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