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Television Program Staged at U.N. Headquarters

22 October 1956

On the occasion of United Nations Week, the Columbia Broadcasting System's ""Camera Three"" television program featured this week a production staged at U.N. Headquarters, entitled ""The United Nations: Extraordinary Session"". The program consisted of dialogues among actors representing such figures as Voltaire, Cicero, Tolstoy, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Marco Polo. In modern dress, they discussed subjects including religion, patriotism, food and geography.
Partial view of the equipment used in the program.

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