Focus on the 50's - Entertainment
DO NOT USE Opening titles and still photos of families watching television, purchasing sets; still of antennae on houses; still of President HARRY S. TRUMAN sitting before several radio microphones; still of HOPALONG CASSIDY
Low angle MS of a boxer taking a hit, falling to the mat
DO NOT USE still of HOWDY DOODY and BUFFALO BOB; still of KOOKLA, FRAN and OLLIE; still of MILTON BERLE (in drag); still of ARTHUR GODFREY on set on his TV show [Arthur Godfrey and His Friends]; still of ED SULLIVAN with LOUIS ARMSTRONG; still of ELVIS PRESLEY performing on Ed Sullivan Show; still of SID CAESAR and IMOGENE COCA.
A three alarm fire raging
DO NOT USE stills of JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE, DOUGLAS EDWARDS, HUNTLEY BRINKLEY, WALTER KRONKITE and EDWARD R. MURROW.
The U.S. Senate investigation into organized crime, chaired by Senator ESTUS KEFAUVER (D-TN).
DO NOT USE Stills of TV quiz shows
DO NOT USE Stills of AMOS AND ANDY, THE HONEYMOONERS, I LOVE LUCY, ACTOR'S STUDIO, STUDIO ONE, etc.
Mum deodorant TV commercial mimicking a spy drama
AJAX commercial animation. (a cartoon featuring adorable little people scrubbing a bathroom).
DO NOT USE Marlboro cigarette TV commercial.
Kleenex table napkins commercial (a housewife's tempered groaning are interrupted by a midget butler).
Pepsodent toothpaste commercial (cartoon w/ a jingle so catchy it hurts).
Cowboys on horseback going to a drive-in theater to see STALLIONS ON PARADE.
DO NOT USE stills of MARYLIN MONROE, MARLON BRANDO, and JAMES DEAN.
DO NOT USE Dick Clark and American Bandstand.
DO NOT USE Movie trailer for THE GIANT GILA MONSTER, a schlocky radioactive monster-on-the-lose sci-fi film.