Studio One spent one year as a radio drama series
before its 1948 debut on TV live from New York.
The Storm, starring Margaret Sullavan launched an
anthology that would fill the tube's Golden Years
with arguably the medium's best written and
performed live drama. No other show would gather
so many of Hollywood's future superstars -
including Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Montgomery,
Richard Kiley, Natalie Wood, James Dean and Grace
Kelly - to work with scripts and diretion from Rod
Serling, Gore Vidal, Sidney Lumet, John
Frankenheiner and others, themselves bound for big
screen glory. Week after week for ten years,
Studio One brought live theatre into America's
homes alongwith the one and only Betty Furness,
the spokesperson for Westinghouse whose live
commercials made her the most recognized and
famous ommercial spokesperson in television
history. Restored from kinescopes rescued from a
condemmed Westinghouse warehouse, Studion One
comes to home video for the first time complete
with commercials as testament to a bygone era of
live television and a tribute to those who created
so uch with what was then a primitive technology.
Languages: | English |
Country: | CAN |
Runtime: | 130 min. |
Number of discs: | 1 |