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and by: and the annual financial support of: hello, im john lithgow. welcome to "american cinema." in 1946, hollywood didnt think a tv screen only inches in size could ever compete with a theatre screen 30 feet wide. movies were king. television was a novelty developed by radio industry. barely 6,000 sets were in use across the entire country. by 1951, it was a new world and television was a part of it. movie theatres were closing in waves, 55 in new york alone. to make matters worse, ...

and by: and the annual financial support of: hello, im john lithgow. welcome to "american cinema." in 1946, hollywood didnt think a tv screen only inches in size could ever compete with a theatre screen 30 feet wide. movies were king. television was a novelty developed by radio industry. barely 6,000 sets were in use across the entire country. by 1951, it was a new world and television was a part of it. movie theatres were closing in waves, 55 in new york alone. to make matters worse, ...

we cant tell our people to vote on abolishing slavery at the same time telling them you will negotiate for peace. >> you cannot have both. >> how many hundreds of thousands have died during your administration. >> hundreds cannot declare equal. those who got are created unequal. >> leave the constitution alone. >> youre stepping on the world stage now with the fate of human dignity in our hands. blood has been spilt and led to this moment. now now now! >> abraham lincoln has asked us t...

I just remember that my dad used to repair television sets when i was a little, little kid for extra money. and so we -- i guess we were one of the first people on our block in our neighborhood to have a television set. >> oh, really? >> back in the early 50s. i know the same thing happened then that happens now. if there was a really funny sid caesar sketch on shows, that was the conversation by, i guess, the sparklets cooler. that was the conversation. so television has always had that draw. a...

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>> cbs news mourns the loss of mike wallace, dead at age 93. >> what is this? >> this is "60 minutes." >> wow. >> he was one of the real pioneers in television journalism. >> were all in his debt. >> astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. thats why a reporters job, as you know, is such a joy. somebody that committed these crimes was kvery upset wih black people. >> authorities looking for answers. >> two men suspected of killing three people have been arrested. >>...

>> what do they want you to do? >> cbs news mourns the loss of mike wallace, dead at age 93. >> what is this? >> this is "60 minutes." >> wow. >> he was one of the real pioneers in television journalism. >> were all in his debt. >> astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. thats why a reporters job, as you know, is such a joy. somebody that committed these crimes was kvery upset wih black people. >> authorities looking for answers. >> two men suspected of killing thr...

Let me finish tonight with this, the academy acards are on sunday night and everyone will be paying tribute to "the artist" the movie about the silent film era. an old star who falls because he cant adjust to the arrive of the talking pictures. when i watched the movie, i couldnt help think of the show business figure, the great nbc star who pioneered all this, did the whole bit about the silent film star who couldnt adjust back in the golden age of television. i know a lot of of people watch hi...

here it comes, that his wife drives a couple of cadillacs. a couple of cadillacs. that will endear him to blou blu collar voters. republicans like jeb bush fear the election is slip away from them. the new battleground map suggests they may be right. mitt was in detroit to push his plan but the optics didnt help. 1200 people there at ford field where the lions play football which means romney dressed 65,000 empty seats. who is the guys advance man on this one? doesnt help that romney o...