{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | runtime = 15/30 minutes | creator = | starring = | country = United States | network = DuMont Television Network | first_aired = {{start date|1948|1}} | last_aired = {{end date|1949}} | num_episodes = }} '''''Camera Headlines''''' is an early American television series that aired from January 1948 to 1949 on the DuMont Television Network.
==Broadcast history== DuMont's previous national news program, ''The Walter Compton News'', had premiered on DuMont station WTTG in June 1947, then on the DuMont network on August 25, 1947, but was off the air by January 1948. This show had movie publicist Compton (1912-1959) reading news from a script with the occasional use of slides.<ref>[https://dumonthistory.com/a3.html DuMont historical website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027142936/https://dumonthistory.com/a3.html |date=2010-10-27 }}</ref>
Premiering in January 1948, ''Camera Headlines'' was an attempt by DuMont to present a TV news program using newsreel film footage. As with some other early television programs, there is conflicting information about the show, with some sources reporting that the series was 30 minutes long, while other sources stating it was 15 minutes long. ''Camera Headlines'' aired Monday through Friday at 7:30 pm Eastern Time, with ''I.N.S. Telenews'' following at 7:45pm on Tuesdays only.
''Camera Headlines'' also aired weekdays 12:30 to 12:45pm ET. The DuMont daytime schedule beginning in January 1949 was:<ref>''What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s'' (University of Texas Press, 2005) by Marsha Cassidy</ref>
*10-10:30am ''Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room'' *10:30-11am ''Welcome, Neighbors'' *11am-12noon ''The Stan Shaw Show'' *12noon-12:15pm ''Amanda'' *12:15-12:30pm ''Man in the Street'' *12:30-12:45pm ''Camera Headlines'' *12:45-1pm ''Fashions in Song'' *1-1:30pm ''Okay, Mother'' *2:30-3pm ''Inside Photoplay'' (''The Wendy Barrie Show'') *3-3:15pm ''The Needle Shop'' *3:15-3:30pm ''Vincent Lopez Speaking'' (''The Vincent Lopez Show'')
==Episode status== As with most DuMont programs, no episodes of ''Camera Headlines'' are known to survive. Little else is known about the series, even though it aired on a major United States television network.
==See also== *''The Walter Compton News'' *''I.N.S. Telenews'' *''DuMont Evening News'' *Television news in the United States *List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network *List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts *1948-49 United States network television schedule
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== *David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) {{ISBN|1-59213-245-6}} *Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) {{ISBN|0-14-024916-8}} *Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) {{ISBN|0-345-31864-1}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0319968}} *[https://dumonthistory.com/a3.html DuMont historical website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027142936/https://dumonthistory.com/a3.html |date=October 27, 2010 }}
Category:DuMont Television Network original programming Category:1948 American television series debuts Category:1949 American television series endings Category:Black-and-white American television shows Category:1940s American television news shows Category:English-language American television shows Category:Lost television shows Category:DuMont news programming