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TV ANTHOLOGY SERIES: 1948-1958

TV ANTHOLOGY SERIES: 1948-1958. RTV 3007 • Intro to Television. TV ANTHOLOGY SERIES 1948-1957. Combined techniques from live theater and cinema Each episode a full story of 60-90 minutes Actors chose to fit the story (not vice-versa) Produced live

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TV ANTHOLOGY SERIES: 1948-1958

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  1. TV ANTHOLOGY SERIES: 1948-1958 RTV 3007 • Intro to Television

  2. TV ANTHOLOGY SERIES 1948-1957 • Combined techniques from live theater and cinema • Each episode a full story of 60-90 minutes • Actors chose to fit the story (not vice-versa) • Produced live • Perfected multi-camera, multi-set TV production • Produced in studios the size of gymnasiums. Cameras rolled from set to set • Closeupsbecame important • Stories showed intimate portraits of ordinary life.

  3. TV ANTHOLOGY SERIES 1948-1957 • Studio One • Playhouse 90 • Robert Montgomery Presents • Several Series were produced: • Kraft TV Theater • Philco TV Playhouse • Goodyear TV Playhouse • Launched the career of many famous actors and writers: • Paddy Chayefsky • Rod Serling • Rod Steiger • Gore Vidal • Charlton Heston

  4. TV ANTHOLOGY SERIES 1948-1957 • Advertisers did not like the format • Showed life’s problems as complex (advertisers had simple solutions) • Showed ordinary life as interesting (advertisers wanted to show aspirations to upward mobility) • Anthology series often portrayed serious social issues. Advertisers did not like political content.

  5. Thunder on sycamore street - 1953 • Studio One production based on a true story about a black family who was attacked when they moved to a white neighborhood. • Advertisers told Studio One they could not portray social problems associated with race • Writer Reginald Rose changed the outcast family’s “problem” to the presence of an ex-convict. • However, the story did not reveal the “problem” until the very end. • This caused audience members to speculate on the nature of the “problem” during the show – Was the family Jewish?

  6. Studio one productions • The Remarkable incident at Carson Corners – http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi2848171545/ • Twelve Angry Men - 1953http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi3066275353/

  7. END OF THE ANTHOLOGY SERIES • 1953- the Supreme Court says film has the same First Amendment protections as newspapers • In 1955, Marty, a film based on an anthology TV character, won four Oscars • Money became available for independent film production. This was helped by the US vs Paramount Pictures case in 1948. • Writers, directors, actors started leaving anthology TV for greater freedoms in Hollywood • By 1960, TV returned to serial formats: formulaic shows with recurring characters emphasizing upward mobility.

  8. The twilight zone 1958-1964 Twilight Zone's writers frequently used science fiction as a vehicle for social comment, as networks and sponsors who censored controversial material from live dramas were less concerned with seemingly innocuous fantasy and sci-fi stories. Themes on The Twilight Zone included nuclear war, McCarthyism, and mass hysteria, subjects that were strictly forbidden on more "serious" primetime television. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street - 1959http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi2799413017/?ref_=tt_wb_hulu

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