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Suggested Situations. The original, beautifully simple Candid Camera needed such contrivance and coyness like a hole in the lens, and when Funt screens his reliable, inspired shots of women trying on hats or children slurping ice cream, the show still is almost as delightful as Godfrey's guffaws would suggest. So far. benign Big Brother Funt has not run out of situations to exploit, although only 10% of his film footage ever proves usable. Most of it is too dull, and much too embarrassing to be shown. "We get a large number of suggestions." says he, "that reveal...
...program (known as Candid Microphone in radio days) has kicked about on the networks, intermittently joined the Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Garry Moore TV shows. This season. Candid Cameraman Allen Funt is back on the air (CBS) with a new half-hour show that features Ar thur Godfrey and Singer Dorothy Collins (the girl in the motorless car) as fellow cards, plus innumerable new gimmicks. In a season in which the canned far out weighs the candid, Camera has grabbed one of the highest ratings...
Sometimes the show passes that point. On one sequence during each broadcast. Funt shares his "aggravating" chores with a guest celebrity-Yogi Berra has served as a lost-ball-peddling golf caddy, Jonathan Winters as a customer-baiting complaint-department manager, and Host Godfrey as a gemutlich Good Humor man. As Funt points out: "We try for familiar frustration; anything we do in a complaint office or a tax bureau-we're in velvet...
...Raborn's request, the top men from all his important contractors-Lockheed, G.E., General Dynamics, M.I.T.-were summoned to a meeting in Washington. In a speech that was part locker-room pep talk, part sermon, part Navy enlistment appeal, part Arthur Godfrey commercial, they were asked if they were willing to proceed on "wartime urgency with wartime dedication." If the answer was yes, said Raborn, "I want the word of your company in bond that you will...
Miss Universe Pageant (CBS, 10:30 p.m. to midnight). Legs, legs, legs in Miami Beach, watched by Arthur Godfrey...