16MM TV SHOW: “PERRY MASON“, CBS NETWORK PRINT, COMMERCIALS, 1963
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“When Balkan dictator Oscar Volney dies after being under house arrest for several years, deposed by opponent Franz Schreck, local exiles in Los Angeles led by Elihu L...aban want to obtain the dead man's papers hoping to expose the current government's corruption. With help from several, including his friend, newspaper publisher Garrett Richards, Laban hires former OSS agent Conrad Bucola to retrieve the Volney papers. The papers are supposed to be delivered to Laban when Schreck visits Los Angeles on a trade mission. When Schreck is killed at the exchange site, an amusement park, Laban is charged with murder and using Perry Mason's staff (Perry is recovering at home from an operation): playboy lawyer Bruce Jason defends him. Complicating the situation is that the fact that Laban swears that Jason is the OSS agent Bucola. Jason worked for the OSS but swears he is not Bucolic”.
This film is a wonderful CBS network print with original commercials for Windex, Bayer Aspirin, Colgate Toothpaste, Liquid Drano, and Ajax. At the end, there are also sponsor tags, but no commercials, for Coca Cola and Marlboro Cigarettes (which leads me to believe that commercials for the latter two were removed?).
The B&W picture is very good (see actual screen shots), the sound is strong, the film runs smoothly, and there is no vinegar smell. The film has all beginning titles and end credits, and it ends with the CBS logo.
Thanks for looking at this great piece of television history.