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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1955
Page
8
New York AP reports the shift toward filmed TV persists with motion picture film now 55 to 60 percent of air time. Eastman Kodak notes the share will rise further, aided by prime shows like Lucy Medic Dragnet and Groucho Marx. In key hours 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. 40 percent of programs are filmed, 60 percent live.
Mrs. Annie Camphor Ross, a formerly enslaved Black woman born 116 years ago, rises in the fall as profiles shift. ABC to premiere a weekly one hour dramatic film show produced by Warner Brothers. CBS plans hour long dramas with 20th Century-Fox produced shows on alternate weeks. CBS to move filmed shows to early evening slots previously held by news and music. Several live shows from last season may be replaced by film next season.
Mrs. Ross died Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She recalled, in a previous interview, traveling with her husband a Methodist preacher to the 1863 battlefield ceremonies at Gettysburg, honoring President Lincoln's address.
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