Candid Camera

The term candid camera (actually: candid camera) means, in practice, hidden camera, with which television programs be included. The concept is primarily used for programs in which random people without knowing in humorous situations are filmed.

The concept of candid camera comes from the United States, where the formula was already successful when the KRO in 1963 in a Netherlands variant presented under the name Peekaboo, presented by Teddy Scholten. The successor of Peekaboo was Polishing, of the AVRO, with Fred Oster as Whistler. Employees of Poets include Cherry Duyns, Cees Buddingh, Gerard van Lennep and Joseph Baker.

Launched In 1982 Ralph Inbar , banana splitin the BUNCH. The jokes were steadily become more inventive, but also more complicated. Inbar also carried out other Dutch celebrities regularly as "victim". So kindledAjaxfootball player Søren Lerby, then still married to Willeke Alberti, in great anger when van Lennep a phone booth went places on his driveway.

The German television also has had a program in the genre: Verstehen sie Spaß? .

For filming with a hidden camera in the past were often use one-sided-mirror glass, in car Windows or in shops, and transmitter microphones. The modern technique of ever smaller cameras makes it possible to film with equipment that is not easily discovered.

A history of legal procedures has led to scenes shot with a hidden camera can no longer be broadcast without consent of those involved. For this purpose, a signed contract .