Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-hour shows," he decided to spend the millions on producing a go-minute show every week for 26 weeks. The series, as he laid it out, was to include everything that "might leave some deposit of enlightenment as well as entertainment," and so it got the catchall name Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m. E.S.T...
Viewers of Omnibus have seen a slow-motion film of a Texas jackrabbit crossing a field. They have seen Saroyan playlets and French ballet. They have heard Helen Hayes read fairy tales, and watched such history-made-easy scripts as Maxwell Anderson's The Trial of Anne Boleyn. In general, the show's filmed offerings have been better than its live productions. Critics gave high marks to Novelist James Agee's five-part scenario dealing with Abraham Lincoln's early years, and to the program's unusual films such as the Danish Palle Alone, which...
...show originally won a spectacular Nielson rating: but has since slipped behind ABC's rival Super Circus, a children's program with no discernible cultural level. But Omnibus has scored remarkably well with advertisers. Last week Scott Paper Co. joined four other sponsors (Willys-Overland Motors, Greyhound Corp., Remington Rand and American Car & Foundry Co.) to make the show completely selfsupporting. This means that Robert Saudek can now use most of the $2,000,000 to produce another culture-flavored series for the approval of the nation's viewers...
Missing the Omnibus...
...your issue of Nov. 24, reviewing the Ford Foundation's television program, Omnibus, you refer to "the first of a five-part Abraham Lincoln story written by James (The Quiet One) Agee and directed by Documentary Producer Louis de Rochemont." TIME errs. The five parts of Mr. Lincoln were directed by Norman Lloyd. I am the producer of these films. Louis de Rochemont, my brother ... is not connected with the Lincoln series...