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BRITISH KINEMATOGRAPHY
Vol. 22, No. 1
as is the B.B.C. programme, and I do not believe that our wholly-filmed Television Newsreel and a separate kv Sound only " recorded news-bulletin will stay the course for very much longer. If the film component of Television Newsreel is mixed with a live component, be it a studio news-reader, often with " stills," maps, " props " and so on, studio interviews, topical outside broadcasts, or all three, it will gain an immediacy which it now but seldom possesses and it will make it unnecessary for the Television Service to carry, quite independently of Television Newsreel. a recording of the latest sound broadcasting news bulletin. To show what is meant by a live newsreel we shall now
Fig. 3
The linten Visatone single-system 35mm. camera used for sound coverage.
project what, for the purpose of this demonstration is, of course, wholly on film. And please do not misunderstand me: I am not saying that this is the shapeof the B.B.C. Television news-programme of the future; I am merely saying that it could be — and I would add that it is most unlikely that it will be.
The Experimental Newsreel was then projected.
I will allow myself to prophecy that in due course it will be produced, in whatever the final shape may be, not five times a week or even seven, but fourteen — that is, twice a day.
Present Day Example.
And now from the future back to the present — not to the immediate present because, as this theatre is not equipped with facilities for reproducing 35mm. magnetic sound I cannot project to-night's edition of Television Newsreel as I had originally planned. It is a case therefore, of tv the next best thing " — last night's edition of Television Newsreel, designed, of course, not with an eye to the small but highly technical audience gathered in this theatre to-night, but for the many millions of television viewers to whom it was presumably a typical edition. The sound has been rerecorded on to photographic film but it has not been printed and we shall therefore be running double-headed with positive picture and negative sound. Here then to close, is what, after its repeat transmission next Saturday, will go into our library annotated "Television Newsreel No. 192 52," and which is unlikely to be brought out again before its transfer for safe keeping with all the other Television Newsreels of 1952, to the British Film Institute vaults at Aston Clinton on or about January 1 next. My excuse for showing it to you is two-fold: firstly to leave this meeting feeling that what is almost the latest edition of Television Newsreel shows some improvement over that first edition projected earlier on. Secondly, this particular edition emphasizes, fortuitously as it happens, that Television Newsreel is used quite unashamedly as a substitute for a television outside broadcast when it is convenient so to use it — as the first story illustrates so well.
The Newsreel was then projected.