kinescope of a live network news broadcast. News items include Richard Nixon, Charlie Chaplin (at 13:14), fashion, missiles and more, plus original commercials for Camels (one is with John Wayne).
starting at 10:26 a Camel ad begins featuring the smoking actor Dennis O'Keefe who claims he switched to Camel cigarettes because they "agree with his throat". He later died from lung cancer.
I suspect that in addition to his weather spot on the network's newscast, meteorologist Clint Youle also did weather reports for NBC's local TV and radio stations in Chicago.
Something terribly sad about seeing John Wayne pitching the things that killed him. I remember watching the Camel News Caravan with my grandparents - great nostalgia.
John Wayne smoked FIVE packs a day this blew my mind. Some say that John Wayne’s cancer was not from cigarettes but from filming the Ghengis Kahn movie “the conqueror “ in white sands NM on land where the trinity nuclear tests were done. Most people who worked on that film including Susan Hayward also died of cancer
"CAMEL NEWS CARAVAN" appeared weeknights at 7:45-8pm(et), right after a quarter-hour of music and/or variety (on Fridays, when this edition aired, following Pinky Lee's "THOSE TWO"). Except for a 1972 visit to accept an honorary Academy Award, Chaplin never returned to the United States...
Barry I. Graumann, and, of course. Mr. TV Trivia, the other half of those two was......Vivian Blaine, and the announcer for Toni home perm was none other than......Bill Cullen!
@@keeley-jasminemaxinecavend9780 -- Prior to cigarette advertising being banned in 1971, a majority of TV shows (and radio before that) were sponsored by tobacco companies. Including The Flintstones.
@@fazbell Nothing to do with unions. The attitude back then by management was they felt a newscaster in vision would take away their neutral stance on the news. Maybe inferring with a look their own thoughts on the day's news, so the BBC who were the only TV station in the UK until 1955 didn't allow their television newscasters in vision. The launch of commercial television in September 1955 saw this change, as the new commercial service announced they would follow the American way and have their newscasters in vision, and so the BBC, trying to spoil this, launched their newscasters in vision three weeks before the new commercial television service launched.
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 Friday prime time NBC in September 1952 had - 8pm The RCA Victor Show. 8.30pm Gulf Playhouse. 9pm Our Miss Brooks. 9.30pm The Aldrich Family. 10pm Gillette Cavalcade of Sports and Greatest Fights of the Century
I sure don't miss the mournful music that at least one of our local TV stations invaribly played when they showed graphic traffic accident film footage during their newscasts in the mid/late 1950s.
I'm a baby boomer I was born in 52 and I can see things haven't changed a lot war bombs and hurricanes we see this in the news everyday 2013 except it's in high def thanks for the video and one more thing my dad always said Nixon was a crook ! lol :D
US television was miles ahead with TV news than in Britain - in 1952 there was no British television news program as such, just a Television Newsreel which was non topical. Radio was where the British got their news each day in 1952. Eventually a British TV news program launched in 1954, but in vision newscasters wasn't seen until 1955.
Friday prime time NBC in September 1952 had - 8pm The RCA Victor Show. 8.30pm Gulf Playhouse. 9pm Our Miss Brooks. 9.30pm The Aldrich Family. 10pm Gillette Cavalcade of Sports and Greatest Fights of the Century.
+Matt Shroyer This was a kinescope recording, so film translated to live TV and again translated to film resulted in significant degrading of picture quality in much of the newsfilm footage.
