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The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1929-1961

Kisseloff, Jeff

Published by Viking, 1995
ISBN 10: 0670864706 / ISBN 13: 9780670864706
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Synopsis: Based on interviews with the technicians, producers, and actors behind TV's early programs, the author creates an entertaining history of the medium, from the inventor of the laugh machine to the quiz show scandals. 20,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

From Booklist: Television's early years may not interest MTV and X-Files fans, but nostalgic fortysomethings--and teens who have discovered The Honeymooners and Lucille Ball on cable--will find fascinating behind-the-scenes details and a solid outline of television's technological, economic, and public-policy context in this enlightening oral history. Kisseloff, who gathered Manhattanites' memories from the 1890s to World War II in You Must Remember This (1989), met with hundreds of famous and not-so-famous people from television's first generation--as well as relatives of pioneering inventors and entrepreneurs like Philo Farnsworth, "General" Sarnoff, and Ernst Alexanderson, who can no longer speak for themselves. Readers will recognize some names and "voices" : on-screen favorites like Hugh Downs, Betty Furness, Rod Steiger, Barbara Billingsley, and Studs Terkel and well-known offscreen figures like Red Quinlan, Pat Weaver, Arthur Penn, Don Hewitt, and Fred Friendly. But The Box is most valuable in blending the memories of recognized pioneers with those of dozens of invisible foot soldiers in TV's early struggles. A welcome, insightful supplement to Erik Barnouw's classic histories of the medium. Mary Carroll

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Title: The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1929...
Publisher: Viking
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Book Type: book