Editing Candid Camera (section)

==Premise==
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The show involved concealed cameras filming ordinary people being confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props, such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car with a hidden extra gas tank. When the joke was revealed, victims were told the show's [[catchphrase]], "Smile, you're on ''Candid Camera''." The catchphrase became a song with music and lyrics by [[Sid Ramin]].

In one episode, the show filmed the reactions of citizens after they saw the former President [[Harry S. Truman]] walking down the street. After being advised that the former president and his [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] entourage would be taking a walk in downtown Manhattan, the program tracked them with a hidden camera in a van. A young woman who was a champion runner was planted at a street corner they would pass, and she was asking directions from a passerby when she saw Truman and shouted hello. In a stunt suggestive of the classic radio play ''[[The Hitch-Hiker (radio play)|The Hitchhiker]]'', she then ran around the block so she could be ahead of Truman and was at the next corner where she again said hello to him as he approached. After this was done several times, she asked President Truman if something seemed familiar. The former president replied he expected she had something to do with the van that had been following him, and pointed straight into the camera with his walking stick without turning to look.

Some of Funt's pieces did not involve pranks but consisted simply of interviews with ordinary people. There were bizarre sequences in which people, sometimes children, gave one-of-a-kind interpretations of works of art. A little girl once told Funt that ''The Discus Thrower'' by [[Praxiteles]] showed a man throwing his little girl's allowance to her while she stood in the back yard.