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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best of Groucho (NBC...
...will be superimposed on the viewer's screen so that he will not lose sight of the main convention activity. ¶ Devices for splitting screens into five segments will enable viewers to see both the platform speaker and his party friends and foes at the same time. ¶ NBC will unveil an "ultra-portable" TV receiver so that delegates can see and talk with each other from different parts of the city, and viewers can watch them both on a split screen. ¶ At Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, two entire floors are being transformed into TV studios...
...veils ("they might keep the televiewers from recognizing their delegates"), nothing white next to the face ("detracts from the skin tone of TV images"), no big-striped dresses or shiny jewelry. ¶ TV's key men will scarcely be seen at all. TV Pool Director Bob Doyle (NBC) will call the shots, decide which of the images from scores of cameras will go inside the nation's homes, offices and bars. Between acts the spotlight will fall on the sideshows: Will Rogers Jr., Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, George Gallup, Dave Garroway et al. Walt Kelly's Pogo...
...Amazing Dunninger (Wed. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is back again, portentously reading inner thoughts. Mike Stokey has also returned with CBS's Pantomime Quiz (Fri. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.), on which a number of celebrities appear and play charades with infantile vigor. NBC's This Is Show Business (Tues. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is a panel show that has stumbled back on the air. An entertainer appears, goes through his act, then raises a show-business question to enable the panel to display its wit or wisdom. One commentator has already suggested that the name of the show...
...Getting ready for the political conventions, RCA showed off a portable TV camera last week that NBC will use at Chicago and San Francisco. The operator aims the camera with one hand, checks the picture he is getting with a portable viewer held in the other (see cut). The 19-lb. "walkie-peepie," which has a range of more than a mile, beams its signal to the convention hall control room where the image is retransmitted...