Captain Video: Television's First Fantastic Voyage

Journal of Popular Film and Television

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 148-157

  Weinstein, David ^a  

^a National Endowment for the Humanities   (United States)

Author keywords

Captain Video; DuMont Television Network; Television history

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650792690     PISSN: 01956051     EISSN: 19306458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01956050209602851     Document Type: Article

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