Camel News Caravan - 19/September/1952 (1952)

★★★★★ · 1950s US Television..! · The_Emperor_Of_Television · 2012-06-12

One of the most currently-disliked shows of the 1950s, mainly due to the sponsor. Few kinescope recordings survive (few 1950s newscasts were preserved), though amazingly, there is a surviving episode from May 06, 1949 in one of the television archives. I live in Australia, so I can't comment on how this compares with the "Big Network" American newscasts of today, though compared to Australia's news-reporting......nevermind, being impaled inside of a large puppet by a man wearing purple make-up would be more pleasant than watching todays Australian newscasts. I can only hope the American…