Research Catalog

Title

The forgotten network : DuMont and the birth of American television / David Weinstein.

Author

Weinstein, David, 1967-

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xi, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the name "DuMont" was synonymous with the new medium of television. Many people first watched TV on DuMont-brand sets, the best receivers money could buy. Even more viewers enjoyed their first programs on the DuMont network, which was established in 1946. Network founder Allen B. DuMont became a folk hero for his entrepreneurial spirit in bringing television to the American people. Yet, by 1955, the DuMont network was out of business and its founder and namesake was forced to relinquish control of the company he had spent a quarter century building."
• "The heart of David Weinstein's book examines DuMont's programs and personalities, including Dennis James, Captain Video, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners, Ernie Kovacs, and Rocky King, Detective. Weinstein uses rare kinescopes, archival photographs, exclusive interviews, trade journal articles, and corporate documents to tell the story of a "forgotten network" that helped invent the very business of network television."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Du Mont, Allen B
• Du Mont, Allen B 1901-1965
• Du Mont, Allen B (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
• Du Mont, Allen B., 1901-1965
• History
• Du Mont Television Network
• Du Mont Television Network History
• Television > historia
• Fernsehsender
• Televisiestations

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

My father was an engineer -- From basement to Broadway -- Who is in charge here? -- The DuMont daytime experiment -- Captain video : protector of the free world and the DuMont network -- What'd he say? Morey Amsterdam meets Norman Rockwell -- And away he went ... Jackie Gleason and the cavalcade of stars -- Law and order, DuMont style -- A bishop for Berle fans -- Ernie Kovacs and the DuMont legacy -- Appendix : DuMont chronology.

ISBN

• 1592132456
• 9781592132454
• 159213260X
• 9781592132607
• 1592134998
• 9781592134991

LCCN

2003067203

OCLC

• ocm53485354
• 53485354
• SCSB-14707333

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library