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The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has digitized a series of donated 16mm kinescope film recordings of The Mike Wallace Interview from the 1950s:

The bulk of these were 16mm kinescope film recordings, some of the earliest recordings of live television that were possible, and that survive today. Many of these have not been seen for over 50 years, and they represent a unique window into a turbulent time of American, and world history.

Be sure to watch Aldous Huxley, Salvador Dali and the oddly compelling Eldon Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

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