Word: du
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Du Mont had another newscast, illustrated with still newsphotos. A travelogue about "quaint" old Charleston followed...
After a few announcements of coming attractions, NBC and Du Mont signed off for a while. CBS switched to a Jackson Heights supermarket for a customer-participation show called Missus Goes A-Shopping. While the camera lingered over signs advertising Bab-O, Sweetheart Soap and Mueller's Macaroni, a bubbling master of ceremonies asked some small children to imitate animals...
...Playtime. An aggressively cheerful young woman, done up as a clown named Popit, ran the show (a picture tour of Italy, an object lesson in How to Make Your Beanie out of Felt, a first-rate marionette show). "Big Brother's" Small Fry Club, with movies, followed on Du Mont. Big Brother began with a pleasant animated cartoon called Cubby the Bear, ended with an inspirational short about a proper if improbable child who hung his clothes in the closet without being told, and brushed his teeth up & down ("the way they grow...
...Du Mont presented Newscaster Walter Compton, who tended to overact. Compton was followed by a slow-burning Lucky Strike commercial (with the man who knows tobacco best looking fussed), and three short films (hunting dogs, wild fowl, a dance band...
After a few weather reports and records, CBS also got under way at 8 with a B-minus, hour-long movie (a boy photographer clicks with a big-city newspaper and a big-city girl). Du Mont continued with Singer Sylvie St. Claire, who relaxed on a sofa with a telephone and urged a melancholy baby to come to her. At 8:15., Du Mont offered a poor full-length movie-almost the only type that jealous Hollywood will allow its suspected rival...