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Election Returns - 3/November/1948 (1948)

1948 · Television · 27 min

Synopsis

Last half hour of the 1948 "Presidential Election Returns" coverage. Kinescope recording begins at 11:10 a.m., Nov. 3, 1948. Bill Brooks, NBC's news veepee; Al Schneider, NBC's director of television news; Bill Garden, producer-director, and all the crew, as well as the announcing and interviewing staffs of WNBT, can take well-earned bows for their efforts. this NBC-Life team-up on the Truman-Dewey battle will go down in TV history as one of the medium's most successful efforts. WNBT was the only station to carry the election from 9 p.m., Tuesday evening, uninterruptedly right thru to 11:38 Wednesday morning. Joe Csida (Billboard, Dec. 1, 1951)

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Running time
27 minutes
Collection
1940s Classic TV, Classic TV

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