Two-year-old John Kipp, Jr: “I have my pet goat at the end of this
string…and my pet lamb…and my pet monkey…and my nine pet dogs”
The entire menagerie
appears on stage after the segment. Not
mentioned on the show is that young Mr. Kipp’s family owns a pet store in Mt.
Kisco, about forty miles outside of New York City, and are grooming animals for
TV appearances like this one. Among their
more exotic creatures is a ten-month-old lion.
Three men from Thomasville, Georgia:
Floyd Baker: “My name is Baker…I’m a baker”
Dallas Law: “My name is Law…I’m a sheriff”
W.J. Burns: “My name is Burns…I’m a fireman”
Special Guest Peter Lorre is starring
in Scent of Mystery (1960), a film
that uses a new process called Smell-O-Vision which pumps various scents into
the movie theater at key moments. He
brings some of those scents in vials for the panel to identify. They are later asked to identify things by
taste and by touch. In the fifties and
early sixties, filmmakers resorted to often outlandish gimmicks to lure
television viewers out of their homes and back into the movie theaters. Smell-O-Vision and the rival AromaRama were
among the more notorious failures in that regard. Fitting theaters with the new technology was
pricy, and in the case of Scent of
Mystery, the film itself received poor reviews. Despite the failure (Smell-O-Vision was only
used this one time), filmmakers have continued to experiment with scents to
enhance the moviegoing experience, often relying on simpler scratch-and-sniff
cards.
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