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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and features Ernest Chappell. Quiet, Please for tonight is called Camera Obscura. I don't suppose you ever killed anybody, did you? I didn't. Think you have. Funny though, you can't tell, you know. Murderers very seldom look like murderers, and there's lots more of them around you have any idea. I know a fellow, a little squinched up, wheezing g…

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Cast›

C

Charita Bauer

E

Ernest Chappell

G

Gene Parazzo

Network›

M

Mutual net

Network

A killer sees his victim return again and again in a "camera obscura," a fiendishly clever device!

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1947

Peak postwar network polish.

24 episodes

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Quiet, Please, Episode 19

Camera Obscura

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Quiet, Please, Episode 19

Camera Obscura

Monday, October 13, 1947 · 23:51

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On the air that night›

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  4. Quiet, PleaseCamera ObscuraCurrently listeningEpisode 19