Guaranteed to keep you up long after prime time, "The Box" re-creates the old-time TV years through more than three hundred interviews with those who invented, manufactured, advertised, produced, directed, wrote, and acted in them. Their reminiscences are intertwined with a chronological narrative that tells the technological, business, and entertainment stories--from pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, through the Golden Age of comedy and drama, to FCC chairman Newt Minow's historic speech declaring television a "vast wasteland."
- ISBN10 0140252657
- ISBN13 9780140252651
- Publish Date 30 January 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 608
- Language English