"Television: the revolution," ([1944])

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
000105
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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86 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION conflict of authority. Not even the most rabid television addict will dispute the claim that "Motion pictures are your best entertainment." Of course they are. And will continue to be. The pictures which emerge from the cable of an iconoscope are very different from the pic- tures which emerge from the cutting rooms of the motion picture studios. Television—a rapid medium—can never duplicate the artistic per- fection of the studied cinematic technique. The two industries have entirely different scales of values: one, to turn out eight hours a day; the other, to turn out two hours a month. Despite its speed, television is going to have something which pictures lack. A certain fresh- ness, an immediacy, a spontaneity. A great motion picture is truly a masterpiece—the pains- taking results of endless hours of labor, by thou- sands c«f minds, and hands, and faces. Television is going to produce few masterpieces. It cannot aim for perfection, as do our best motion picture producers. Sight-broadcasting will be a breezy compromise between perfection and speed. The difference between electronic and photographic sight is the difference between an illustration and a painting—between a digest and an ency-