Camel News Caravan - 28/September/1954 (1954)
1954 · Television · 14 min
Synopsis
Another "Camel News Caravan", presented by John Cameron Swayze on Sep. 28, 1954. Topics of the day include: Polish security officer's defection, the McCarthy question, World Series warm-up session and an Old car derby.
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Details
- Running time
- 14 minutes
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1950's Television
- NBC
- News
- Kinescope
- Live TV
- John Cameron Swayze
- Rex Marshal
- Camel
- Jozef Swiatlo
- Joseph McCarthy
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Thank You! Thank You! Got any more? · The_Emperor_Of_Television · 2012-06-12
Is this any worse than Fox News or MSNBC? No. Are the plugs for Camel cigarettes any worse than talk shows of today promoting fad diets? I'd say no. Is the middle commercial shown as being news? Maybe, but anyone with half a brain could have realised it was a commercial. People of the 1950s were more sophisticated than you'd like to think. Television commercials were being spoofed at least as far back as 1950 (see kinescope of "Cavalcade of Stars" featuring "Arthur Clodfrey"....also see 1950 feature film "My Blue Heaven"....plus there are many other examples of advertising being spoofed in…
★★★★ · History! · Htos1 · 2012-06-13
How cool to see a car almost one hundred years old!