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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stylized Violence. Though these five Eyes have latched onto the classiest clientele scores of lesser peepers operate on IV. Hollywood sound stages, dominated until a few years ago by all sorts of B movies from gangster yarns to Abbott-and-Costello comedies, now harbor an endless succession of Private Eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Despite the big money they earn the shows are filmed on a tight budget: around ?40,000 and three days for each half-hour. With rare exceptions, the all-important night scenes are faked on the back lots of Hollywood; to save overtime wages, these are shot in daylight with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

All this special Private Eye technique has opened up a new area of employment for talented extras, men who know how to simulate the absolute stillness of death (corpses are embarrassing when they breathe), who know how to wear a cop's uniform with ease. On location in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

As past contestants reappeared in the newspapers to plead innocence or cast suspicion, and TV reporters wrote reams of copy designed to show that they had really been in the know all along, considerable suspicion piled up against CBS's $64,000 programs, Question and Challenge. Even the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Melancholy Business | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Ralph McGill: "It is a melancholy business, and it is the more so because it is a reflection on all of us. That so many millions hang on the results of the quizzes, in which sterile parrot knowledge was put to artificial use, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Melancholy Business | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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