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Afternoon Film Festival — Wikipedia (en)

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Afternoon Film Festival was a series of British theatrical feature-films aired by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network from January 1956 through the summer of 1957 each weekday from 3:00 to 5:00 pm (EST). This anthology was the first (and probably the only) instance of a major over-the-air (non-cable) American television network broadcasting a package of theatrical movies as part of its Monday-through-Friday daytime television programming. Consisting mostly of films from the 1940s and early 1950s, Afternoon Film Festival was actually an offshoot from ABC's prime-time movie series Famous Film Festival, which began in the fall of 1955 on Sunday evenings and featured a package of 35 British titles leased from J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors in England at a cost of $45,700 each. ABC signed Allyn Edwards—and later, the veteran actor Donald Woods—to host each Afternoon feature, and on Monday, January 16, 1956, the anthology premiered with Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller The Lady Vanishes (1938). The next afternoon, the internationally successful war drama The Cruel Sea (1953) was telecast. The Lady Vanishes had originally premiered in 1944 on WNBT in New York, but for almost all the rest this would be the first time these films were ever aired on American television.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Afternoon Film Festival» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon_Film_Festival
Wikidata Q18350421: «US television program» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350421
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