The Hot Seat
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
A talk show from 1952 where host Stuart Scheftel and a guest interviewer ask questions to a celebrity or public figure. The show skips elaborate production and focuses on getting straight to the questions.
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What happens
The Hot Seat is a 30-minute American television talk show that was broadcast on ABC beginning on April 18, 1952, and ending on December 29, 1952. Each episode had host Stuart Scheftel and a guest interviewer posing questions to a celebrity or public figure. Guest interviewers included James Wechsler and Leo Cherne. People interviewed included Ellis Arnall, William Benton, Richard Nixon, Walter Francis White, Joseph McCarthy, Tex McCrary, Helen Gahagan Douglas, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Scheftel was the producer, with Rocky Wall as associate producer, and Robert Doyle was the director. Competing programs included This Is Show Business on NBC and Doc Corkle on CBS. Newspaper columnist Bob Lanigan noted the program's streamlined approach to interviews, saying that it "makes no pretense at elaborate production, dispenses with all nonessentials and gets down to the business of asking questions immediately." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Charlie Rose (1991)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.