On May 27, 1956, The Ed Sullivan Show scared the crap out of viewers when they aired Peter and Joan Foldes' apocalyptic animation A Short Vision.
The blog Conelrad Adjacent has assembled a detailed history of the broadcast. As our pals at io9 point out, it's hilarious to note that Ed basically sprung the doomsday short film upon his audience with barely a warning - instead promising acts like the ventriloquist Senor Wences, the "winners of the Harvest Moon dance contest and the Hasleves, acrobats."
Here's how Ed introduced Armageddon to his audience:
"Just last week you read about the H-bomb being dropped. Now two great English writers, two very imaginative writers - I'm gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this .cause it's a fantasy, the whole thing is animated - but two English writers, Joan and Peter Foldes,...
The blog Conelrad Adjacent has assembled a detailed history of the broadcast. As our pals at io9 point out, it's hilarious to note that Ed basically sprung the doomsday short film upon his audience with barely a warning - instead promising acts like the ventriloquist Senor Wences, the "winners of the Harvest Moon dance contest and the Hasleves, acrobats."
Here's how Ed introduced Armageddon to his audience:
"Just last week you read about the H-bomb being dropped. Now two great English writers, two very imaginative writers - I'm gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this .cause it's a fantasy, the whole thing is animated - but two English writers, Joan and Peter Foldes,...
- 6/27/2011
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