''Geographically Speaking'' was an American
travel series that debuted on June 9, 1946, on
NBC
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, and aired Sundays at 8:15 pm EST immediately following the
game show
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''
Face to Face''.
Originating at
WNBT-TV in New York City, the weekly 15-minute program was one of the first TV shows to have a regular sponsor,
Bristol-Myers
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. The show consisted of hostess Zetta Wells narrating her
home movies
A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a special event, and intended for viewing at home by family and friends. Originally, home movies were made on ph ...
of her trips with her husband
Carveth Wells to unusual and exotic places. When she ran out of home movies, the series ended in December 1946. The sponsor retained the time slot, replacing the show with ''
Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties''.
Episode status
No episode of the series is known to survive in any archive, as it was broadcast live and there was no way to record live TV until the development of
kinescopes
Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940s ...
in 1947. Even then, only a few TV shows were recorded.
See also
*
1946-47 United States network television schedule
References
External links
*
1946 American television series debuts
1946 American television series endings
American travel television series
Black-and-white American television shows
American English-language television shows
Lost television shows
NBC original programming
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