Imagine turning on your television and finding Lorne Greene and Eddie Albert starring in an adaptation of George Orwell's 1984? Or the usually comedic Walter Matthau portraying a World War II submarine commander? Or a young William Shatner playing an upstart hospital pathologist?
For regular viewers of Studio One, a live dramatic anthology sponsored by Westinghouse that aired on CBS-TV from 1948 to 1958, these were only a few of the familiar faces that turned up each week and that can now be seen on videotape at the Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University.
The Browne Popular Culture Library acquired the original films for 36 episodes of Studio One, as well as some 450 outlines, synopses, and scripts relating to television production and broadcasting from 1949 to 1960, from Bowling Green State University alumni Richard C., Robert N., and John D. Garand in 1989. The brothers inherited the collection from a fourth brother, Father Fred Garand, who had acquired it from a former Westinghouse executive.
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