Road to Life Soap Opera Rare 1950's
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Somewhere in storage are a lot more 16mm Kinescopes I've collected of Road to Life I hope to restore one day.
This soap opera, the first one to be set in the medical community, aired from 1937-1959 on NBC and CBS. The program was created by Irna Phillips, who created several programs including The Guiding Light and The Right to Happiness. In this episode, an 11-year-old goes on trial for murder.
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Soap operas on radio were 15 minutes long 5 days a week, with organ music, including Road of Life. This allowed the networks to fit four shows in an hour, especially for prolific producers like the Hummerts. Early transition to television followed this format, but would soon expand to 30 minutes.
And that's what lead to the beginning of the decline of the genre... when soaps turned into 1-hour shows, they had too bloated a runtime, and they were (and still are) too expensive to produce. Plus, 15 minutes serves as a perfect duration to watch a full show while on a break at work.
It was a perfect format for its targeted audience, housewives, who were more prevalent in the 1930's to 50's. They could listen while doing household chores and being sold on the usefulness of Ivory soap and Old Dutch Cleanser. Thirty minute and hour-long shows make a serial format tedious. The advent of the DVR is the only reason the few soaps now in existence are still on the air.
0:00-0:19 the music sounds familiar, sort of reminds me of Davey & Goliath. Thanks for posting this. I just love the opening of the actors in picture frames.
The song is an organ rendition of "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Muggorsky. Not gonna lie, it has a creepy twist in this show...
A lot of shows were 15 minutes long in the 1950s.
The intro to this show is kinda creepy... spooky organ music, black cat statue, live people frozen in portraits, a mean-looking old man... yeah, if I was a kid in the 1950s growing up and saw this on TV, I'd freak out.
Thisbis neat!
14:29 stay tuned for The Robert Q Lewis Show on the CBS Television Network
it sure is
On the longer running radio show, Barbara Becker, who played the nasty Sybil Fuller, played the heroine Jocelyn McLeod Brent.
What a turn. Sybil was one of the first Karens ever seen anywhere. She was quite a nasty bird, indeed. She was very disrespectful to her mother and taking down to her father.
Merrimac, the community this show was set in, was pretty happening.