Webb, Jack "Dragnet" 1953 Sheet Music Signed Autograph Photo

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Description: "Dragnet"-1953-Schumann Music-sheet music. This famous theme song features the popular 1950's show-"Dragnet". Jack Webb is featured on the front cover in an original scene.Dragnet was a long-running radio and television police procedural drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.Dragnet was created and produced by Jack Webb, who starred as the terse Sgt. Friday. Webb had starred in a few mostly short-lived radio programs, but Dragnet would make him one of the major media personalities of his era. Dragnet had its origins in Webb's small role as a police forensic scientist in the 1948 film, He Walked by Night, inspired by the actual murder of a police officer in Los Angeles. The film was depicted in semidocumentary style, and Marty Wynn (an actual LAPD sergeant from the robbery division) was a technical advisor on the film. Webb and Wynn became friends, and both thought that the day-to-day activities of police officers could be realistically depicted, and could make for compelling drama without the forced sense of melodrama then so common in radio programming. Webb frequently visited police headquarters, drove on night patrols with Sgt. Wynn and his partner Officer Vance Brasher, and attended police academy courses to learn authentic jargon and other details that could be featured in a radio program. When he proposed Dragnet to NBC officials, they were not especially impressed; radio was aswarm with private investigators and crime dramas, such as Webb's earlier Pat Novak for Hire. That program didn't last long, but Webb had received high marks for his role as the titular private investigator, and NBC agreed to a limited run for Dragnet. This sheet music originally sold for forty cents. The sheet music has been autographed on the front by Jack Webb in black...BOTH SHEET MUSIC AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION......................

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