UCLA Television Archivist Dan Einstein presents this evening of rare kinescope treats from the DuMont television network; complete program notes will be available at the screening. “DuMont, while operating under very tight budget limitations...managed to utilize its limited resources to pioneer new and imaginative...concepts. Its most popular entertainment series was Cavalcade of Stars, a variety show that...is best remembered for having introduced Jackie Gleason's enduring The Honeymooners, first seen as a skit on the July 22, 1950 telecast. DuMont also presented network television's first soap opera (Far-
away Hill); its first successful children's show (The Small Fry Club); its first science-fiction program (Captain Video).... Among its other notable accomplishments (was) its coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings...” (Dan Einstein).
Tonight's program includes: Newsweek Views the News: “Casebook of Treason” (1950, 30 mins), a study of the “virus of Soviet Communism”; The Morey Amsterdam Show (1949, 30 mins), featuring that “gag man about town”; Jimmy Hughes, Rookie Cop (Premiere Episode, 1953, 30 mins), a police drama about a Korean War veteran; Guide Right: “Eliott Lawrence Plays Gershwin” (1953, 5 mins), from a Korean-war era variety show designed to encourage recruits; Man Against Crime: “Three Cents Worth of Murder” (1953, 30 mins), with Ralph Bellamy as a fearless New York City private eye; Not for Publication: “All the World's a Stage” (1952, 30 mins), with Jerome Cowan as the reporter Collins; and The Ernie Kovacs Rehearsal (1955, two 30-minute segments), featuring the one indisputable genius the medium of television has produced.