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Take Two

Chris' Collection: Toy cameraman

By Take Two Staff
Published Aug 13, 2013
Kraft Television Theatre toy.
Kraft Television Theatre toy.
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Todd Johnson/KPCC
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Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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Chris' Collection: Toy cameraman

Chris Nichols is an editor at Los Angeles magazine, but he's also a walking encyclopedia when it comes to Southern California's history. Every so often he comes by and he brings in one of his treasures.

Today he brings in a toy cameraman that was once used for the Kraft Television Theater of the 1940s and '50s. It was a promotion that you could get if you mailed in enough box tops to Kraft.