Longines Chronoscope

Longines Chronoscope
Genre	Public affairs
Created by	Alan Cartoun
Directed by	Alan Cartoun
Starring	William Bradford Huie Larry LeSueur Henry Hazlitt
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Running time	15 minutes
Release
Original network	CBS Television
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	11 June 1951 – April 1955
External links
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Longines Chronoscope is a TV program, sponsored by Longines watches, that ran on CBS Television from 1951-1955. The series aired Monday nights at 11pm ET to 11:15pm, and expanded to Mon-Wed-Fridays at 11pm ET after the first season. More than 600 episodes were aired, but only 482 survive, and these surviving kinescopes were donated by Longines to the National Archives.

The series featured 15-minute episodes with interviews with notable people of the time, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Henry Wallace, Robert Moses, Richard E. Byrd, Joseph McCarthy, Earl Warren, Arthur Bliss Lane, John V. Beamer and Clare Boothe Luce. The show was hosted by William Bradford Huie, Larry LeSueur, and Henry Hazlitt.

See also

• Television news in the United States
• Public affairs (broadcasting)

External links

• Longines Chronoscope at IMDB
• Chronoscope interview with Henry Wallace, broadcast 12/28/51, Retrieved September 10, 2013
• Chronoscope interview with Earl Warren, broadcast 4/11/52, Retrieved September 12, 2013
• Chronoscope interview with John F. Kennedy, broadcast 8/22/52, Retrieved September 12, 2013
• Chronoscope interview with Humbert H. Humphrey, broadcast 12/2/53, Retrieved September 12, 2013
• Chronoscope interview with John V. Beamer, broadcast 3/10/1952, Retrieved February 18, 2015
• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Arthur Bliss Lane (March 24, 1952)" is available at the Internet Archive
• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Arthur Garfield Hays (December 7, 1951)" is available at the Internet Archive