Vine Street
- Genre
- soap opera
- Country
- United States
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This daily 15 minute serial from 1938 was the first American TV soap opera. It follows characters trying to make it in Hollywood while dealing with the ups and downs of show business.
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What happens
Vine Street, considered the first American television soap opera, was first broadcast on 15 April 1938 by W6XAO in Los Angeles, as a daily 15-minute serial, and was listed as a comedy-drama. The storyline involved Hollywood life on the lowest rungs of the "ladder" to success. The light humor drama shows the struggles to make it big in Tinsel Town. The stars were Broadway and radio character actors John Barkeley and Shirley Thomas, neither of whom appeared on television again. The writers, Maurice Ashley and Wilfred Pettit, were brought in from the radio networks to experiment in this new medium. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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