TB's Election Video Thread

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I forgot about this thread!

But I cannot for whatever reason find ANYTHING from 1964, or 1956 for that matter. The only thing I know for sure was that there is a post election special by CBS out on the circuit but what's the point in that? No thanks.

I seen maybe about 30 seconds worth of ABC's 1964 coverage, it looked pretty good for it's age and for ABC in those days. But that's about it.

I need to get into uploading again!

I never saw much coverage from 1952, 1956 or 1964 either. I guess over time, the TV networks either destroyed their kinescopes of 1952 and 1956 election returns or reused the video tapes that were used to record the 1964 election coverage. On a side note, I saw a small portion of the 1948 election coverage from NBC on Youtube recently (NBC and possibly CBS also televised coverage of the 1940 and 1944 election returns, but no footage is known to exist due to the fact that the kinescope process to record TV programming was not introduced until the Fall of 1947).

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I know it is kind of late, but here is some coverage of the 1948 DNC from WPIX-TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas3kJkFKiE

Also, this TV special aired April 30, 1949, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the launch of TV broadcasting in the US has some fragments from NBC's coverage of the 1940 or 1944 election night around the 12-minute mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5qR5p8oPss

Had the kinescope process for recording TV broadcasts been developed about 8 years earlier, then there would have been a lot more surviving footage from the 1940 and 1944 election night coverage.