Television: Jazz Age

Almost as soon as the '20s stopped roaring, they began echoing, and are echoing still, in musicomedy, novels, memoirs and even women's fashions. To produce an echo that would come closest to what the '20s would call the real McCoy, television turned to its indispensable ally, the cinema. Four film searchers took 800 hours to view all they could find of the decade's imprint on celluloid. Out of it they culled 23 hours of film for NBC Producer Henry (Victory at Sea) Salomon and his Project 20 staff. This week (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.S.T., NBC) TViewers can see the result: The...

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