The Golden Age Of Comedy
1959
Features a collection of comic clips from the 1950s. Includes footage taken from: 'The Jack Benny Show', 'The Bob Hope Chevy Show', The Ed Wynn Show', 'The Camel Comedy Caravan', 'The Colgate Comedy Hour', 'The Phil Silvers Special' and 'The Ernie Kovacs Show'. Read more
| Starring | Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton |
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| Director | Robert Youngson |
| Genres | Comedy |
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The Golden Age Of Comedy
Features a collection of comic clips from the 1950s. Includes footage taken from: 'The Jack Benny Show', 'The Bob Hope Chevy Show', The Ed Wynn Show', 'The Camel Comedy Caravan', 'The Colgate Comedy Hour', 'The Phil Silvers Special' and 'The Ernie Kovacs Show'.
| Starring | Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Ed Wynn, The Three Stooges, Errol Flynn, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bob Hope |
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| Director | Robert Youngson |
| Studio | TIME LIFE VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 6 hrs 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 17 Oct 2005 Production year: 1959 |
| Format | DVD |
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NOSTALGIA RULES!
Wonderful nostalgia, wonderful kitsch sponsorship/advertising. Interesting history for those too young to have much idea about tv in this era but who know many of the names that endured for many years after the fifties of which Bob Hope must rate as the father of them all. AS STAND ALONE entertainment leave it alone.
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Alas, Gold Tarnishes
These are kinescopes of American television shows from 1948 to 1958, starring Ed Wynne, Phil Silvers, Jack Benny, Abbott & Costello and Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis.
Unfortunately, times change, tastes in comedy alter, styles of timing and tempo become unfashionable. So you might now find Jack Benny's technique painfully rather than hilariously slow, Lou Costello's performance grotesquely over the top, Ed Wynne's character verging on the nauseous. They aren't helped by the fact that these were pre-videotape live shows, with no editing out the dull bits, so sequences like Jerry Lewis's otherwise funny Ed Sullivan impersonation can become tedious. And in spite of all the cleaning-up that computer technology can provide, they are still telerecordings (kinescopes is the American term) filmed straight off the television tube in milky black and white with no perspective, as flat as the television screen from which they were taken.
So view these discs principally as history rather than entertainment. I'm afraid I know whereof I speak. I was a television light entertainment producer in the '50s, the Golden Age of British television comedy. I won a BAFTA for it. I've seen telerecordings of some of my early shows. And believe me: gold tarnishes.
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The Golden Age Of Comedy
Features a collection of comic clips from the 1950s. Includes footage taken from: 'The Jack Benny Show', 'The Bob Hope Chevy Show', The Ed Wynn Show', 'The Camel Comedy Caravan', 'The Colgate Comedy Hour', 'The Phil Silvers Special' and 'The Ernie Kovacs Show'....
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