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OK, that seems to cover everything. Thank you.
Those live dramas must have been incredibly difficult to do. I don't know how many camera shots there were in a 55 minute show, but if it were four hundred it wouldn't surprise me.
In the mid-1970's a guy called Kenneth Whelen wrote a book called How the Golden Age of Television Turned My Hair to Silver about his experiences being a staff director for CBS. He says they used to play a game called "Attaboy Aw Sh*t" that worked like this: he would tell the cameraman to get in position for his next shot, and if the camera was in the right spot at the right time, he'd get an "Attaboy". On the other hand if the camera wasn't in the right spot, he'd get an "Aw Sh*t". Three Attaboys cancelled out one Aw Sh*t. They totaled it up at the end, and depending what the score was, the the crew might not be speaking to each other.
The juror who says "He doesn't even know how to speak English," is John Beal. Will West, aka Larkin Ford is to Beal's left; you can just see a little bit of his profile.
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