Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that we can't get in a live studio production. The hero of the western is always supposed to be an agent of Captain Video's-that sort of ties it together...
Wearing a sport jacket and horn-rimmed spectacles, and carrying a big package ("It's my old lady's birthday"), Larry bounced into the studio first. When "the old lady" showed up, her cued-in lyrics in hand, they went to work. Larry had had a bit of stock-company experience in the past year or two, but Mary wasn't too sure of his voice: "It hasn't settled enough for anyone to know what it is really like. But he can carry a tune . . ." After three hours of coaching, needling and playbacks, they finished...
...Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). First part of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...
...frequent and happy intervals, he bursts from these poses into wild assaults on the earthbound sanity of his viewers. He restlessly roams the stage and studio audience, leaps from piano stool to microphone and back, urgently seizes and spurns his fellow actors, addresses furious asides to his network, his sponsor (Motorola) and other comics. He hymned his nose's birthday ("It was the first time in history that a nose outweighed the child!"); sang (with Stooge Candy Candido) an appealing duet called The Pussy Cat Song; displayed an entertaining low comedy that is as innocent as it is rare...
Most of Kim's backgrounds (and some of its action) were filmed in India, and M-G-M technicians have done an expert job of blending the studio scenes into the location footage. While the screen overflows with exotic local color, the soundtrack matches its extravagance with Kipling's quaint version of the Indian idiom. Even grownups who are dragged off to see Kim are likely to have no regrets...