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Word: electronicam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...that slapstick can be tasteless with an interminable skit that required Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to pretend that he was madly in love with her (a role often filled last year by Actor Cesar Romero). Jackie Gleason is back with The Honeymooners, but the show is now filmed by the Electronicam method, which Gleason and the system's inventors (Du Mont) insist is just as good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie and Audrey Meadows seemed longer and less funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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