Plymouth News Caravan - 20/April/1955 (1955)
1955 · Television · 14 min
Synopsis
Another "Plymouth News Caravan", presented by John Cameron Swayze on April 20, 1955. Topics of the day include: Eisenhower sends key aides to Formosa and National Guardsmen test combat readiness. Note: File upgrade 01/14/2011.
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Details
- Running time
- 14 minutes
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1955
- NBC
- News
- Kinescope
- Live TV
- John Cameron Swayze
- Plymouth
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Makes modern TV news look good · mstamper · 2009-12-02
Pathetic, boring, so low key it's a wonder they all didn't fall asleep. Advertisements presented as news stories. Superficial and almost random coverage of the days events. What a paranoid world! Enemies everywhere. War imminent. No wonder we (kids) were all scared out of our wits then. The world (as presented on the news) was a violent, humorless industrial wasteland full of threats. This was fun to watch. I hope we get to see more.
★★★★ · Makes Modern TV look AWFUL · King_Sock-Puppet_and_his_Morris · 2009-12-14
Well, at least in some parts of the world. Quote from previous review: "Pathetic, boring, so low key it's a wonder they all didn't fall asleep. Advertisements presented as news stories. Superficial and almost random coverage of the days events. What a paranoid world! Enemies everywhere" Wow, you just Described Australian News reporting as of December 2009!! Of course, this is from the US...It reminds of FOX News as of December 2009. That, or MSNBC. If nothing else, the story on Mary Pickford was far more newsworthy than anything reported by the five major Australian broadcasters of today…