“TV – That’s Where Movies Go When They Die”: Rewatching the First Televised Oscars
THR, Esq. 2022-03-26
Summary:
In the postwar turf fight between the motion picture industry and the television networks, the first telecast of an Academy Awards ceremony by NBC on March 19, 1953 marked the beginning of grudging truce: The movies would use TV to lure audiences back into theaters and TV would use the movies to sell television. As […]