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Alice Live! on Television by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Curator Of Exhibitions, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Eva LeGallienne, as the White Queen in the 1982 revival of Alice in Wonderland.. Photograph by Martha Swope In the mid-1950s, the networks and independent channels campaigned to establish television watching as a family activity. One of their methods was to develop dramatizations of well-known children's stories. The best remembered examples include the annual broadcasts of the M-G-M Wizard of Oz and the musical Pet…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:31PM on December 1, 2015

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