Talk:Industry on Parade

Industry on Parade
I loved the show as a young boy. We received it during morning cartoons on Saturday. Gary Higbee 173.19.237.70 (talk) 23:23, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

number of seasons? number of episodes?
Number of seasons is disputed. Wikipedia has an unsourced claim of 10. Other sources vary.

One example: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Business/Encyclopedia-of-Television.pdf - Initially produced by the NBC News film unit, the series ran from 1951 to 1958. This example claim is probably wrong, but it serves to demonstrate that the number of seasons is at least somewhat disputed.

If a season is a discrete calendar year in which the series aired, then it aired for at least 11. The first season is 1950, and the Archives Center of the Smithsonian Institution has documentation that it aired until at least 1960. "The series ended its run in 1960, although NAM continued to distribute the films for educational screening throughout the early 1960s."

The number of episodes is likely too ambiguous to state with certainty. The show aired on NBC, but was also distributed to theaters and education orgs. In the late fifties it's producers began "recycling and rearranging old footage to provide broader overviews of different industries" - shuffling the segments of old shows to produce new shows to air on NBC or elsewhere.

Cross posted from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q12060736#number_of_seasons?_number_of_episodes?

--Jerimee (talk) 19:42, 16 April 2024 (UTC)