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PROGRAMS ON FILM 231 1936 virtually 50 percent of the television programs that have been seen on home receiving sets have been on film. When NBC was on the air with a regular schedule of 15 hours per week, at least five of them were on film. At that time there were some where in the neighborhood of 60 employees giving their full time each week to the production of these programs. We had one live broadcasting studio, a mobile unit, and a film studio. If we had not had film available to us, we would have had to double our personnel and to have added at least one more stu dio; and it is doubtful whether we could have maintained that 15-hour-a-week schedule without another mobile unit, which means that the use of film replaced a studio, perhaps a mobile unit, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 or 60 people. It has been said that the television audience objects to film programs merely because they are on film. This is not true. Hun dreds of interested viewers have looked in on live dramatic pro grams and time after time they have asked, at the conclusion of the program: "Wasn't that program on film?" We must recog nize the fact that the audience was paying, everyone connected with the program, a very high compliment for the finished tele vision program they were able to produce and it was proof that the lay viewer has no objection to film as a basis for good televi sion drama. The television director's chief aim is to have a smooth flowing performance. With the many problems that he must face in a live program, if he succeeds in putting out a pro gram that a lay viewer thinks is on film, he has done a tremendous job. At first everyone was sympathetic to television production problems. Critics in their reviews constantly referred to the good job that was done with existing facilities, but today we are de manding perfection and mistakes are not dismissed lightly. Perfection of Film Presentations A television program on film has advantages that are difficult to offset in the studio, chiefly from the point of view of a smooth running performance. We have discussed in detail the problems of a director in producing a live talent dramatic program. Ob viously good programs of this kind are possible but at no time are they foolproof. In a recent live program, everything had been