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TELEVISION STUDIO TECHNIC 27
phases of television operation with their counterparts in motion picture production.
For so new a medium as television it is, of course, an impossibility to present a complete and permanently valid exposition. Television technic and apparatus constantly advance. Some technic now current may be outmoded in a day or a month. We have only to recall the early days of motion picture production, when slow-speed film and inferior lenses were a constant limitation. So, with television, it is already possible to envision more sensitive pick-up tubes that will permit the use of smaller lenses of much shorter focal length, thus eliminating many of today's operating difficulties.
Production Technic Investigations. — In May, 1935, the Radio Corporation of America released television from its research laboratories for actual field and studio tests. Long before the first program was produced in the middle of 1936, plans were laid, based on extensive research into the established entertainment fields, for the purpose of determining in advance what technics might be adaptable to the new medium of television. From the stage came the formula of continuity of action, an inherent basic requirement of television. This meant memorized lines and long rehearsals. Prompting could not be considered, for, as you know, the sensitive microphone which is as much present in television as it is in sound motion picture production, does not discriminate between dialog and prompting.
From the motion picture studio came many ideas and technics. If television is a combination of pictures with sound, and it is, no matter what viewpoint is taken, the result spells in part and for many types of programs, a motion picture technic at the production end. However, enough has already been said about the peculiarities of television presentation to justify saying that the movie technics do not supply the final answer. There remained the major problem of preserving program continuity without losing too much of motion picture production's flexibility. Our present technic allows no time for adjustments or retakes. Any mistake immediately becomes the property of the audience. The result of the entire investigation led to what we think is at least a partial answer to the problem. This technic, we hope, will assist considerably in bringing television out of the experimental laboratory and into the field of home education and entertainment.
General Layout of Facilities. — In order to present a clearer view of our problems, we shall give a brief description of our operating plant.