The original hidden camera comedy show.

Candid Camera

CANDID CAMERA
Allen Funt
Allen Funt hosted or co-
hosted the programme
until a stroke in 1993.
Allen’s son, Peter, is
now the producer and
host of the format.
Woody Allen wrote for
the show in the 1960s.
A British version of
Candid Camera began
in 1960 and ran for
seven years. You can see
clips from the original
Candid Camera series on
YouTube.
Look into
my lens.

Hidden camera shows

are popular all over the
world. But the original
concept started way
back in the 1940s with
Candid Camera.
Hidden camera pranks
Here are some typical hidden camera pranks.
A man grabs jewellery through the window of a
jeweller’s and gives it to a passerby.

Candid Camera was An angry lady is cleaning the streets and won’t
created and produced let people pass.
by Allen Funt. It started GLOSSARY
hidden adj
out on radio in 1947, Every time a waitress serves drinks in a bar, her if something is “hidden”, you can’t
see it
but ended up on TV in 1948. The idea for the skirt falls down. to end up phr vb
show was simple. Hidden cameras would film if something “ends up” in a place, it is
there eventually
ordinary people in unusual situations. When A man dressed as a police officer writes fake to reveal vb
to show
the joke was revealed, the victims would be parking tickets after removing a sign that says it’s fake adj
told the show’s catch phrase, “Smile! You're on OK to park there. not real
to file a lawsuit exp
Candid Camera.” to start a legal process against
The humour was based on putting real people In a first-aid class, students are learning how
someone in order to get
compensation
in fake situations. There have been many to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a injured adj
hurt; damaged
versions of the show since then, including dummy. Suddenly, the “dummy” (which is a prank n
Just For Laughs Gags and Trigger Happy TV, but a joke that involves tricking/
actually a real person) wakes up. humiliating someone
Candid Camera was the original. a gag n
a joke

There was bad news A big hole is dug in a forest along a trail where to pose as exp
if you pose as something, you
for the show in 2001. people go jogging. The hole is filled with water pretend to be that thing by wearing
different clothes, etc.
Philip Zelnick, 35, one and unsuspecting joggers fall into it. a conveyor belt n
a continuously moving strip of rubber
of the victims of the which is used for moving objects
show, filed a lawsuit A drunken man outside a public toilet tells a bruise n
a blue/black mark on your body
against Peter Funt (the people not to go down the stairs to the toilet where you have been hit
son of the founder). because there’s a lion there. No one believes him, a jury n
a group of 12 people who decide if
Zelnick claimed he was injured during one of but they soon find out that he is actually telling someone is innocent or guilty in a
court case
the show’s pranks. As part of this gag, Funt the truth. a passerby n
was posing as a security guard at an airport. someone who is passing by in the
street when something happens
He instructed passengers to go through a A man flying a remote controlled plane asks the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation n
if you give an unconscious person
fake X-ray machine. While Zelnick was getting victim to hold the controls because he needs to this, you open their mouth and
off the conveyor belt, he received a bruise go to the toilet. The plane (which is really being breath into them in order to make
them conscious again
to his leg. The jury awarded Zelnick a total controlled by someone else who is hiding) starts a dummy n
of $300,000, with Peter Funt and the show attacking the victim.
a model of a person
to jog vb
ordered to pay $150,000 each. to run as a form of exercise

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