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BRITISH KINEMATOGRAPHY
Vol. 22, No. 1
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theatre seen through the window of the mixing room. In the foreground is the mixer desk and disc reproducers for sound effects. The three television monitors are used when sound is to he added to a silent film that is being televised.
for dubbing is identical with that used in preparing cinema newsreels although the treatment is different in that what would be a long-cut of a cinema newsreel story, is the normal cut in Television Newsreel. In dubbing great attention is paid to sound effects, and in so doing we use a large number of discs (the Sound Broadcasting Library of 50,000 sound effects recorded on to 2,500 discs is of course at our disposal). So the normal set-up at a dubbing session involves the mixing of the voices of one, two or three commentators with three film sound-tracks (one natural sound and two music tracks) and effects from no less than four disc turntables. On a normal day dubbing takes place soon after 5 o'clock and, as we record on 35mm. magnetic sound film, there is no further processing to do and, given no lastminute story, the reel is usually ready for transmission at any time from 7 o'clock onwards.
As to the commentaries, I have already referred to our specialist commentators, reporters or correspondents, and I would only add here that all facts and figures are checked, re-checked and then checked again, and that
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the type of humour which is so carefully written into cinema-newsreel commentaries is just as carefully removed from ours if, perchance, an over enthusiastic script-writer has, let us say, over-reached himself ; a gag which will make a large cinema audience really rock with laughter can, I assure you, be painfully unfunny to an individual home-television audience of two or three. The B.B.C. Television Newsreel is, to the B.B.C.'s Sound News Programmes, at least a first-cousin (albeit several times removed) and, by long tradition, the B.B.C. goes to great lengths to ensure that its News Programmes preserve dignity as well as accuracy and authority.
The Music Track.
Comparatively few patrons of the cinema attend a screening of every edition of a given Producer's newsreel — and those who do can see and hear only a total of less than 16 minutes a week. On the other hand, statistics show that Television Newsreel is seen by well over 100 per cent of our viewers (in other words many viewers see some editions twice) and as the weekly output of Television Newsreel is now well over an hour, every tune in even