antedating "docudrama"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Don't know if it matters, but the following entry:

WE CALL TO MIND, a docudrama In two parts by Philip C. Lewis.
O Philip C. Lewis; 8Jul57 ;
C10571.

shows up in

 "Catalog of Copyright Entries 1957 Dramas Etc. Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 11 Pts
3-4"

http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig31134libr/catalogofcopyrig31134libr_djvu.txt

DanG


On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> OED: 1961
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> 1958 _Chronicle Telegram_  (Elyria, O.) (March 5) 12: DocuDrama Sponsored
> By Board  OBERLIN--...DocuDrama is a new approach to school-community
> public relations created by playwright Philip C. Lewis, and "We Call to
> Mind" is (WCTM) is a concert reading similar to the Caine Mutiny Court
> Martial.
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> There are further details.  Lewis appears to have coined the term, though
> the sense here may not quite be the sense popularized in the 1970s. All
> pre-1970 exx. in NewspArch seem to refer to Lewis and his work.
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