The Golden Age Of Television: The Criterion Collection DVD

• Technical Specs
• Format: DVD
• Rating: Not Rated
• Number of Discs: 3
• Run Time: 478 Minutes
• Region: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
• Language: English
• Studio: Criterion Collection
• DVD Release Date: November 24, 2009
• Packaging: Custom Case
• Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
• Color: Black & White
• Includes:
  Kinescopes of the live broadcasts of Marty (1953), Patterns (1955), No Time for Sergeants (1955), A Wind from the South (1955), Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956), The Comedian (1957), and Days of Wine and Roses (1958)
  Commentaries by directors John Frankenheimer, Delbert Mann, Ralph Nelson, and Daniel Petrie
  Interviews with select cast and crew, including Frankenheimer, Andy Griffith, Julie Harris, Kim Hunter, Richard Kiley, Piper Laurie, Nancy Marchand, Jack Palance, Cliff Robertson, Mickey Rooney, Carol Serling, Rod Steiger, and Mel Tormé
  Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by curator Ron Simon and his extensive liner notes on each program
  

The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was advancing and making art accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays" constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality drama to homes across the country. The following award-winning programs-curated for PBS in the early 1980s as the series The Golden Age Of Television with recollections from key cast and crew members-were conceived by such up-and-comers as Rod Serling and John Frankenheimer, and star the likes of Paul Newman, Mickey Rooney, Rod Steiger, Julie Harris, and Piper Laurie.

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