{"id":8307,"date":"2010-04-22T07:53:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T06:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2010-04-22T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T06:53:55","slug":"james-dean-and-ronald-reagan-in-the-dark-dark-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/04\/22\/james-dean-and-ronald-reagan-in-the-dark-dark-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"James Dean and Ronald Reagan in The Dark, Dark Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=79091004001&amp;playerID=30183073001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/30183073001?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=79091004001&amp;playerID=30183073001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/30183073001?isVid=1\" name=\"flashObj\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" flashvars=\"videoId=79091004001&amp;playerID=30183073001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2010\/04\/ronald-reagan-and-james-dean-rare-video-from-1954\/39238\/\">The Atlantic<\/a> has unearthed some remarkable video of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Dean\">James Dean<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Reagan\">Ronald Reagan<\/a><\/strong> acting together in a live 1954 TV drama called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0586289\/\">The Dark, Dark Hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Meroney\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2010\/04\/ronald-reagan-and-james-dean-rare-video-from-1954\/39238\/\" target=\"_hplink\">reports<\/a> on how the footage was discovered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No one has seen this episode in the decades since; the kinescope has been locked away, until now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>My friend\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynefederman.com\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Wayne Federman<\/a>, a writer for NBC&#8217;s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, unearthed the broadcast, condensing it from its original 23 minutes (without commercials) into the six-minute version you see below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>(Federman is planning a retrospective of Reagan&#8217;s television career for next year&#8217;s Reagan centennial.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood-elsewhere.com\/2010\/04\/fake_it_dad.php\">HE<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of James Dean and Ronald Reagan acting together in a live 1954 TV drama called The Dark, Dark Hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[1408,1407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}