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Longines Chronoscope

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Created by
  
Alan Cartoun

Country of origin
  
United States

Running time
  
15 minutes

First episode date
  
11 June 1951

Genre
  
Public affairs

Audio format
  
Monaural

Directed by
  
Alan Cartoun

Original language(s)
  
English

Original network
  
CBS Television

Final episode date
  
April 1955

Language
  
English

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Longines Chronoscope is a TV program, sponsored by Longines watches, that ran on CBS Television from 1951-1955. The series aired Monday nights at 11pm ET to 11:15pm, and expanded to Mon-Wed-Fridays at 11pm ET after the first season. More than 600 episodes were aired, but only 482 survive, and these surviving kinescopes were donated by Longines to the National Archives.

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The series featured 15-minute episodes with interviews with notable people of the time, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Henry Wallace, Robert Moses, Richard E. Byrd, Joseph McCarthy, Earl Warren, Arthur Bliss Lane, John V. Beamer and Clare Boothe Luce. The show was hosted by William Bradford Huie, Larry LeSueur, and Henry Hazlitt.

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References

Longines Chronoscope Wikipedia