Adventure (1953)

Name: Adventure
Released: 1953

Country: United States
Length: 3 seasons, 10 episodes
Rating: 7.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere: IMDb

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How it feels

This series is a documentary program from the 1950s. It features interviews with scientists and experts along with films about anthropological expeditions. The show focuses on presenting academic research to a television audience.

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What happens

Adventure is a documentary television series that aired on CBS beginning in 1953. The series was produced in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History and hosted by Charles Collingwood. The program consisted of interviews with scientists and academicians and films of anthropological expeditions. Individuals appearing in interviews included historian Bernard DeVoto, biologist Alexander Fleming, and adventurer Sasha Siemel. Marcel LaFollette has written, "Production approaches that are now standard practice on NOVA and the Discovery Channel derive, in fact, from experimentation by television pioneers like Lynn Poole and Don Herbert and such programs as Adventure, Zoo Parade, Science in Action, and the Bell Telephone System's science specials. These early efforts were also influenced by television's love of the dramatic, refined during its first decade and continuing to shape news and public affairs programming, as well as fiction and fantasy, today." LaFollette included the program in her 2008 overview of early broadcasting devoted to science popularization. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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