The Armed Forces Hour
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- For a similarly titled Dumont TV series (1950-51), see A Visit With the Armed Forces.
| The Armed Forces Hour | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 24 mins. |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC (1949-1950) DuMont (1951) |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | October 30, 1949 – May 6, 1951 |
| External links | |
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The Armed Forces Hour is an early American television program originally broadcast on NBC and later on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1949 to 1951. Despite the title of the series, it was a half-hour program.
The Armed Forces Hour was a television program "culled from the estimated 500 million feet of film" archived at the U.S. Department of Defense. Production was supervised by Major Robert Keim and Lieutenant Benjamin Greenberg.[1]
After a one-season run on NBC, the network cancelled the series in 1950. However, on February 4, 1951, the series started again on the DuMont Television Network, with the last DuMont episode airing on May 6, 1951.
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
- ↑ McNeil, Alex (1980). Total Television (4th ed.). New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8
Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
External links
Categories:
- DuMont Television Network shows
- NBC network shows
- 1940s American television series
- 1950s American television series
- 1949 American television series debuts
- 1951 American television series endings
- American documentary television series
- Black-and-white television programs
- English-language television programming
