Author to discuss TV’s Golden Age

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — Author and television historian Larry James Gianakos will discuss “The Resurrection of an Era: Dramas in the Golden Age of Television” at 6:30 p.m. April 16 at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, 444 Mahoning Avenue N.W.

Gianakos, of Warren, is the author of “Resurrection of an Era,” a critical essay included in the booklet that accompanies the DVD boxed set. “Studio One Anthology” is presented by KOCH Vision and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation from The Archive of American Television Presents.

The set includes 17 of the most celebrated dramas from the “Westinghouse Presents Studio One” series, which ran on CBS from 1948 to 1958. Many of these have been produced from kinescopes, film taken from television monitors before the advent of commercial videotape, long thought lost or sequestered in private collections and broadcasting museums. The set includes now-classic teleplays by Reginald Rose, Rod Serling and Gore Vidal and features performances by Jack Lemmon, Eva Marie Saint and Charlton Heston, before they were cinema stars, alongside such established stars as Chester Morris, Eddie Albert and Miriam Hopkins.

The landmark series resurrected an era fondly remembered as “The Golden Age of Television.”

Gianakos is also the author of “Television Drama Series Programming: A Comprehensive Chronicle, 1947-2008,” now in seven volumes. He is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Since 1996, Gianakos has also been a member of Manhattan’s eminent theatre organization, “The Players,” founded by Edwin Booth in 1888.

The library program is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. For more about library programs and services, call (330) 399-8807, ext. 128, or visit the library’s Web site at www.wtcpl.org.