Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows write by Ted Okuda. This book was released on 2016-02-09. Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the last 1950s, studios saw television as a convenient dumping ground for thousands of films that had been gathering dust in their vaults. Distributors grouped them by genre-- and Chicago's tradition of TV horror movie shows was born. From giant grasshoppers to Dracula epics, Okuda and Yurkiw take a comprehensive look at these programs, with career profiles of the "horror hosts," a look at the politics behind the shows, and broadcast histories, as well as guides to many of the films themselves.
Shock Theatre Chicago Style
Shock Theatre Chicago Style - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shock Theatre Chicago Style write by Donald F. Glut. This book was released on 2012-08-09. Shock Theatre Chicago Style available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From December 1957 through October 1959, Chicago TV viewers were held in thrall by "Marvin," the ghoulishly hilarious host of WBKB-TV's late-night horror film series Shock Theatre. Marvin and his lady friend "Dear" (her face ever hidden from the camera) introduced thousands of Chicagoland youngsters to such classic Universal chillers as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man. This history of Shock Theatre focuses on the series and its creator, Marvin himself--in real life, the multi-talented Terry Bennett, whose wife Joy played "Dear." Terry's son Kerry Bennett provides an affectionate foreword, while celebrated horror host Count Gore De Vol (Dick Dyszel) supplies the afterword. Included are dozens of photos and vintage advertisement reproductions, as well as two appendices featuring a resume of Terry Bennett's career and a list of films telecast during his two-year Shock Theatre run.
Television Horror Movie Hosts
Television Horror Movie Hosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television Horror Movie Hosts write by Elena M. Watson. This book was released on 2000-11-01. Television Horror Movie Hosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabra'd corridor. She stops, shrieks hysterically into the camera, then solemnly says, "Good evening, I am Vampira." Her real name is Maila Nurmi and she was the first in a long line of television horror movie hosts, commonly seen on independent stations' late-night "grade Z" offerings dressed as some zany ghoul or mad scientist. This book covers the major hosts in detail, along with styles and show themes. Merchandise tie-in and fan reactions are also chronicled. The appendices list film and record credits.
Chicago Television
Chicago Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicago Television write by Daniel Berger. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Chicago Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of television in Chicago begins with the birth of the medium and is defined by the city's pioneering stations. WBKB (now WLS-TV) was the principal innovator of the Chicago School of Television, an improvisational production style that combined small budgets, personable talent, and the creative use of scenery and props. WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) expanded the innovative concept to a wider audience via the NBC network. WGN-TV scored with sports and kids. Strong personalities drove the success of WBBM-TV. A noncommercial educational station, WTTW, and the city's first UHF station, WCIU, added diversity and ethnic programming. The airwaves in Chicago have been home to a wealth of talented performers and iconic programs that have made the city one of the country's greatest television towns. Chicago Television, featuring photographs from the archives of the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) and the collections of local stations and historians, gives readers a front-row seat on a journey through the fi rst 50 years of Chicago television, 1940-1990. Founded in 1982 by broadcaster Bruce DuMont, the MBC Web site offers over 10,000 digital assets.
Hosted Horror on Television
Hosted Horror on Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hosted Horror on Television write by Bruce Markusen. This book was released on 2021-07-16. Hosted Horror on Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films called Shock Theater. These movies became a huge sensation with TV viewers, as did the horror hosts who introduced the films and offered insight--often humorous--into the plots, the actors, and the directors. This history of hosted horror walks readers through the best TV horror films, beginning with the 1930s black-and-white classics from Universal Studios and ending with the grislier color films of the early 1970s. It also covers and explores the horror hosts who presented them, some of whom faded into obscurity while others became iconic within the genre.
