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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0841887050586
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: PBS Paramount
Manufacturer: PBS Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: PBS Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 08, 2005
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 28050
Studio: PBS Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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STOP right here. It's a waste of time to go any further. The first review is SO right on! This DVD is much more about Vaudeville than TV (Period)
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Where is the prime time part of this documentary? They spent far too much time on radio and vaudeville. At one point I thought it was titled pioneers of vaudeville, not prime time television. Where are the producers, the directors, the technology? Where are the great children's shows and the adventure shows? This documentary is nice as far as it goes, but it does not go very far at all. In fact any number of 1920s, 30s and 40s musicals had more about the anticidents of prime time television ... Read More
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I'd only seen a bit of this PBS special when it was rerun and had always been curious about it. I'd been informed that it would be worth my time, so when I saw it available on Amazon-and @ an inexpensive price besides-I went for it. As the other reviews detail, this is a basic(VERY basic) overview of a few of the vaudevillians that started the TV medium-Milton Berle, Red Skelton, Jack Benny, and Bob Hope. It also touches(barely) on George Burns & Gracie Allen and their sitcom. All were part of the ... Read More
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I wish every kid would see videos like this so they would know where the comedy of today comes from and why, in many ways, the talent is not what it once was. I find it sad that nearly all of the people in this video have since passed on, but what a great way to remember them. I would have paid extra if they had included an hour or 2 of the actual interviews with the stars. As good as the edited documentary is, the source material must have been a lot of fun as well.
Buy it, watch ... Read More
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The television documentary Pioneers of Primetime informs the audience about emergence of primetime broadcasting and its founders. These pioneers were characters such as Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Sammy Davis Jr., Buddy Ebsen, Bob Hope, Rose Marie, Donald O'Connor, and Red Skelton who helped shape what television is today.
The 1930s was the decade of the radio, as it had a large number of celebrities performing audio theatrical plays and comedies. However, the radio began to ... Read More
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