The Flying Phone Booth: Three years behind the Candid Camera

ISBN-13: 9780615487571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 698 str.

Lou Tyrrell

Opis

Come back to the sixties Come back and join the crew producing America's number one television show, Candid Camera. Come back, meet Mr. Candid Camera himself, Allen Funt, the self proclaimed genius whose great idea developed into America's first reality television success. Join the workers and discover the multiple personalities that filled his magic brain. Learn the problems dealing with a different boss everyday, the tension waiting to see which Allen showed up every morning bringing new problems you didn't have yesterday. Then go in the studio watch the fans as they pour their love on the smiling, bouncy star they know as Allen Funt. Read stories about great Cndid Camera sequences, about the Candid stars who made them work, and the subjects, the real people, the ones responsible for the all the laughter across America, Sunday nights on CBS. Live life at the whim of Allen Funt, not the smiling jolly man in front of the TV camera but the real Allen Funt. Come back, sit in the conference rooms and help pitch a Candid Camera spin-off, dance to the networks tune and produce a new series...Allen's only failure. Come back...live in the golden years of television and remember that someday, somewhere when you least expect it, someone will step up to you and say, Smile, you're on Candid Camera. Come, step into the flying phone booth and enjoy the ride.