The concept is so popular that the name has become part of common language. The Schmilblick Presented by Guy Lux in 1969 on ORTF, which only fifty years old remember, returns this Monday to France 3, performed by Flavie Flament.
It is on the program Flavie en France, a traveling program, broadcast from 11:20 to noon, where The Schmilblick. The first show takes place in Libourne. The concept remains the same, it is about guessing an object or sound from a visual or audible clue.
It didn’t last very long (the game only lasted one season, from September 1969 to July 1970). The Schmilblick It also owes much of its success to a Coluche sketch from 1975, which parodied the contest and which has endured throughout the centuries.
Blurred image and scratched name.
The Schmilblick – whose name was imagined by the comedian Pierre Dac in 1958, consisted of revealing an object, shown very closely. Candidates asked questions to try to find out the nature of the object. The show took place in duplexes, between Paris, where Guy Lux was in the studio, and a city in France, where the candidates were.
“Our Schmilblick is not for athletes, it is not used in the kitchen, it is not commonly used by everyone, it is not used at home, it is not bought in tobacconists, it is not found in the countryside, it is not worn around the neck, it is not alive…”, lists for example the announcer in one of the broadcasts.
The poor quality of the image (black and white and particularly blurry) made it even more difficult to identify the object. The candidates also sometimes stumbled over the name Schmilblick, which is not easy to pronounce, like Papy Mougeot in the Coluche sketch.
Television does not stop recycling its old game shows, fair price has Interurbanpassing the bigdil AND Pyramid. “Software” programs that reassure viewers and are based on nostalgia.
Source: BFM TV
