This partially complete show (60 minutes) of the 90-minute documentary series, Wide Wide World (in 7 parts for YouTube) was telecast live on NBC Television at 4 pm ET Sunday, October 16, 1955 (the series lasting until 1958). The program was sponsored by General Motors / United Motors System and its subsidiaries like Delco Remy, AC Spark Plugs Electronic Division, and Guide T3 Safety Headlamps Lamp Division. Dave Garroway was the host of the series which featured live remote segments from locations throughout North America. This ground-breaking series carried live events into four million households. This October 16, 1955 premiere, "A Sunday in Autumn," featured 73 cameras in 11 cities, including a college campus, the fishing fleet at Gloucester, Massachusetts, rainswept streets in Manhattan and the famed radio series, "Monitor" broadcasting live in NBC's Radio Central studio. Also seen live: The Grand Canyon, Radio City Music Hall, The Texas State Fair held in Dallas, Weeki-Wachee Springs in Tampa, and a curious coverage by a nervous Ted Husing of an attempt by Donald Campbell to break a speed record at Lake Mead in Nevada, showing nothing more than his boat, on the other side of the lake, failing to take off. A GM commercial with Nelson Case is shown. Interiors and Exteriors of a San Francisco Cable Car in operation is observed. A point of view shot of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers from an airborne plane is shown, The 85th Fighter Squadron is seen in flight. Ground ...
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