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duction of the film cameraman’s work. To emphasize this fact, it is interesting to note the results of one special survey we made of films made especially for TV. We conducted a test of the various films stocks currently used in the pro¬ duction of motion pictures for tele¬ vision, to determine which him or com¬ bination of films gave the best results. We encountered cameramen and TV him producers who preferred DuPont negative and positive exclusively; others who preferred DuPont negative, with prints made on Eastman positive; while still others preferred both Eastman negative and positive. All claimed their combination gave the most ideal results.
So we took a typical DuPont nega¬ tive of a popular TV him show and a typical Eastman negative of another show to a major laboratory in Holly¬ wood, which does most of the process¬ ing of locally-made TV hlms. Here we had prints made in various ways: an Eastman positive print of the DuPont negative; a DuPont positive of the East¬ man negative. Then we made prints on Eastern positive of the Eastman nega¬ tive, and a print of the DuPont nega¬ tive on DuPont positive. Following this we had the lab make a special print which they believed was the kind every¬ body was asking for — an extra soft print.
All these prints were then taken to a local TV station and put on the air after the regular programs had ended for the night. Those on our committee viewed the results on their home receivers in their own living rooms. Of all of the prints, the one that gave the best results was the normal print made from a nor¬ mal negative, and without the station engineer once touching the monitor con¬ trols. The point is that the very same technique was employed in the produc¬ tion and processing of this film that would have been employed in making a regular theatrical film.
During this survey, I personally studied just about every TV film show made in Hollywood, looking at the pic¬ tures on my home receiver, then noting the comparison in a projection of the films on a movie screen.
The production methods of each TV film producer were studied. I spent days with each company on the sound stage, studying the lighting employed, the way the cameramen and assistants operated, and observed the direction, etc.
Obviously the complete, multi-page report resulting from our survey is too voluminous to reproduce here, and I can only summarize some of the most important conclusions reached as result of the study. In addition to those obser¬ vations already mentioned above, other conclusions are:
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