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Zenith press kit 1972
Press kit for Zenith "25th Anniversary of TV"
Also contained some small publicity shots of stars sketched on cover, which I did not scan. Of interest here: Photo of B&W roundie production line Photo of display of Zenith's version of first NTSC color receiver. Zenith time line and profile. http://www.bretl.com/tvarticles/docu...esskit_000.pdf (2.7MB pdf file) |
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On the cover I see Dinah Shore, Lucille Ball, James Arness, Jack Webb, Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Jack Palance?, John Wayne, Johnny Mathis?,?, Robert Young, Florence Henderson and Milton Berle.
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Thank you for posting this, it's really cool!
I wonder if that see-through demonstrator model survived somewhere? |
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I didn't recognize the guy between Sid Caesar and Duke. I'm not convinced it's Jack Palance, but I also didn't recognize Florence Henderson, who I do think is the correct ID. I think the first two at bottom are Nat King Cole and George C. Scott.
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Sorry - I screwed up the posting and had to repost - should be OK now
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Between Caesar and Wayne is Perry Como.
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I think you're right about G.C. Scott, I still think it's Mathis though, he did (and still does) a lot of TV but Nat King Cole died in 65.
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The pictures inside do [EDIT: DO NOT] match one-for-one with the cover illustration. Neither Cole nor Mathis are pictured inside, and neither one appears on the list of cast shown here:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/48008...Anniversary-A/ Last edited by old_tv_nut; 01-12-2013 at 08:23 PM. |
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You don't think Zenith stretched the truth in any of what they said, do you?
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Rauland division prob made 15GP22 under license using RCA components like GE did? Then quit after very small production? At very big expense, for very little return |
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Thank you for posting that! It is very cool.
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Interesting reading. My first thought about the cover picture; What is Carl Sagan doing there next to Lucy?
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No more than what is typical in advertising, I would guess.
They used to make a big deal about "hand crafted", aka "point to point chassis wiring". With the crappy circuit boards the industry had at the time, Zenith may have had a point there.
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