Oct. 7, 1954, "The Long Goodbye" comes to television. |
 The Times failed to review Chandler’s "The Long Goodbye," but we did a brief advance on the television show. Notice that "Climax!" was a live program. I have no idea whether there is a kinescope, but it’s nice to think that there might be. Note: To mark the 50th anniversary of Raymond Chandler’s death, the |
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Since, of course, a kinescope is simply a videotaped copy of a TV program, I am sure there is one available somewhere. The question is, is it available to the public for viewing? I’d more than love to see it.
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A kinescope would have been made for broadcast on to the east coast and midwestern time zones, and for shipment to Hawaii.
Whether or not it survives, I cannot answer.
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Actually, a kinescope is a filmed copy of a live program, shot off a tv monitor, not a videotaped copy. Videotape wasn’t introduced until 1956, so a kinescope is all that might survive. This show would have been telecast live to the east coast at 5:30 Pacific, then kinescoped for west-coast broadcast.
It is believed to be a lost show. Urban legend has it that this is the show in which an actor whose character had just been killed (Tristram Coffin) thought he was off-camera, and got up and walked away.
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