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The DuMont Television Network (was one of the world’s pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the USA.

DuMont produced more than 20,000 television episodes during the decade from 1946 to 1956. Because the shows were created prior to the launch of Ampex’s electronic videotape recorder in late 1956, all of them were initially broadcast live in black and white, then recorded on film kinescope for reruns and for West Coast rebroadcasts.

By the early 1970s, their vast library of 35mm and 16mm kinescopes eventually wound up in the hands of ABC, who reportedly disposed of all of them in New York City’s East River to make room for more recent-vintage videotapes in a warehouse. Other kinescopes were put through a silver reclaiming process, because of the microscopic amounts of silver that made up the emulsion of black-and-white film during this time. It is estimated that only about 350 complete DuMont television shows survive today, the most famous being virtually all of Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners comedy sketches. (Wikipedia)

#Nixon50 #OTD 8/5/1974 “I have today instructed my attorneys to make available to the House Judiciary Committee, and I am making public, the transcripts of three conversations with H. R. Haldeman on June 23, 1972. I have also turned over the tapes of these conversations to Judge Sirica, as part of the process of my compliance with the Supreme Court ruling.”

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From If This “Nudity” Trend in Movies Ever Spreads to the Comics (MAD #130, October 1969)

Artist: Jack Rickard

Rainbow over the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee, New Jersey

29 July 2023