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(Courtesy of British Broadcasting Corporation)
Photograph of the television production of " Rebecca " and, below, a scene from the London
stage production.
it became an interlude during which patrons repaired to the bar. Just before the first World War, " Electric Palaces " sprang up, their prices sometimes as low as one penny. In distinction to the early development of the theatre, the box-office was pre-eminent from the beginning.
Later came sound. For a period, films made originally as silent films were fitted with sound tracks. The film makers found that it was quite possible to synthesise a film star from a girl's looks and a director's brains.
The Experiment of Television
In 1936, stage, film and radio were thrown together at Alexandra Palace. Television had one great asset : it could show events as they happened. Like the stage, its actors must learn their lines and build up their parts ; the scenery must be as cheap as that of the stage, but look as solid as that of the film. Retakes and editing were not possible. Finally it must always be borne in mind that television went into the home like sound radio.
How could television compare with the stage, with its two-way contact between actors and audience ? With the film, with its slow and careful elimination of errors and final grooming ?
Television, concluded the speaker, must develop along different lines from either. Things that would appeal on the stage would not appeal to the viewer at his fireside. Television must develop its own type of entertainment.
(Courtesy of Angus McBean and H. M. Tennent Productions Ltd.)
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