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40 A. W. PROTZMAN
camera is lighted. From this point, continuity must be rigidly preserved. As titles move from one to another, appropriate music is cued in and actors are sent to their opening positions.
With the completion of titles, the image is faded out electrically and cameras are switched to the opening shot. Performers begin their action on a silent cue from the assistant director, who is instructed from the control room. During this first scene, the camera previously picking up titles moves quickly into position to shoot a second view of the action. Again cameras are switched, permitting the first to move to a new position ; and so the action proceeds. If the play has several scenes, the concluding shot of the first scene is taken by one camera while others line up on the new scene and wait for the switch. Frequently, there are outdoor scenes. These are filmed during the first stages of rehearsal for transmission from the film studio at the proper time during the performance. The switch to film is handled exactly as another camera switch, except that the switch is to the film studio instead of to one of the studio cameras. The projectionist must be warned in advance to have his projector up to speed and "on the air" at the proper instant to preserve the production continuity. This requires very critical timing, as you can well appreciate. When the film is completed the studio cameras again take over the next interior scene.
Upon completion of the studio portion of the program, one camera lines up on the final studio title, which usually returns the program to the film studio for a concluding film subject.
Since the first program on July 7, 1936, many television programs have been produced. Each has been a serious attempt at something new. Although much has been accomplished, there remain a vast number of unknowns to be answered before it can be said that television's potentialities have been even partially realized. Today, as this paper has indicated, television bears many points of similarity to motion pictures. As a matter of fact, it is likely that television would be somewhat handicapped if it were unable to borrow heavily from a motion picture production technic that has been built up by capable minds and at great expense over a period of many years. Infant television is indeed fortunate to have such a wealth of information at its disposal. Possibly continued experimentation will lead us toward a new technic distinctive of television. During its early years, however, television must borrow from all in creating for itself a book of rules. The first chapter of that book is scarcely written.