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''Famous Film Festival'' was American television's first prime-time movie series. It was aired Sunday nights 7:30-9:00 pm (EST) by ABC during the 1955-56 television season, switching to Saturday nights (7:30-9 pm) during its second and final season, 1956-57. In 1955, ABC obtained the rights to broadcast 35 British movie titles. These included ''The Man in Grey'' (1943), ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951), ''Odd Man Out'' (1947), ''Caesar and Cleopatra'' (1945), ''The Red Shoes'' (1948), and ''Hamlet'' (1948). However, many of these, such as ''Hamlet'', ran two full hours or longer, and were either drastically cut to fit a ninety-minute time slot or shown in two installments a week apart. It was not until November 3, 1956, with CBS's first presentation of MGM's ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1939), that an uncut film lasting more than ninety minutes was telecast in one evening on a television network. Unfortunately, all films in this series were broadcast in black-and-white, despite the fact that several of them had been originally photographed and exhibited theatrically in color. Thus, such films as ''Stairway to Heaven'' (1946) and ''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'' (1943) would not be seen by American viewers in color until years later when they were released for rental and exhibition by local and independent television stations. Other British films from J. Arthur Rank Productions obtained at the same time were shown as part of ABC's daytime ''Afternoon Film Festival'', which aired weekdays from 3:00-5:00 pm (ET). This show premiered January 16, 1956 and ended August 2, 1957, replaced by ''American Bandstand'', which introduced Dick Clark to network television audiences and went on to become one of daytime's most popular programs, especially with teenagers. == Season One (1955-1956 Season) == All titles listed below for the series' two seasons were cited from the TV listings of ''The New York Times'' via microfilm copies of its backlogged issues, September 1955-May 1957. # (09/18/1955) ''Odd Man Out'' (1947) # (09/25/1955) ''Adam and Evalyn'' (1949) # (10/02/1955) ''The Clouded Yellow'' (1951) # (10/09/1955) ''Island Rescue'' (1951) # (10/16/1955) ''Madonna of the Seven Moons'' (1945) # (10/23/1955) ''The Man in Grey'' (1943) # (10/30/1955) ''Notorious Gentleman'' (1945) # (11/06/1955) ''Caesar and Cleopatra (part one)'' (1945) # (11/13/1955) ''Caesar and Cleopatra (part two)'' (1945) # (11/20/1955) ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951) # (11/27/1955) ''Tight Little Island'' (1949) # (12/04/1955) ''The Woman in Question'' (1950) # (12/11/1955) ''The Promoter'' (1952) # (12/18/1955) ''The Blue Lagoon'' (1949) # (12/25/1955) ''The Red Shoes (part one)'' (1948) # (01/01/1956) ''The Red Shoes (part two)'' (1948) # (01/08/1956) ''White Corridors'' (1951) # (01/15/1956) ''Ivory Hunter'' (1951) # (01/22/1956) ''In Which We Serve'' (1942) # (01/29/1956) ''The Mikado'' (1939) # (02/05/1956) ''Stairway to Heaven'' (1946) # (02/12/1956) ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1952) The remainder of this first season consisted of reruns of the films above, some of which were repeated twice before the beginning of the second season in October 1956, when the series moved to a new night: Saturdays from 7:30 to 9:00 pm (Eastern Time).〔TV listing, ''The New York Times'', September 1955-August 1956.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Famous Film Festival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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