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- 21 - The following are professional people! Performers, Transmitter engineer. Director, Technical director# All of which proves not much of anything. Except this one thing....that a lot of people are involved in getting a television program on the air. Many °* f olks listed in the second category above could be college students with experience and some special training# TV Shows Take Time The second point X wish to make in this short report is that when the ^i result is seen on the television screen one wonders how and why the whole thing took so muc time. A case in point. At WOI-TV we are doing thirteen programs about the state institutions under the Board of Control. These are penal, corrective, children s and mental. The prelindnaiy conversations with the chairman of that board took place last fall. The show got on the road the first week in May. In between fall and spring these things took place: a# A script writer was hired by the Board. b. A producer was assigned by the station. / .. c# The puipose and philosophy of the series was settled (not a light matter, one that took much talk)# # . d. The producer spent three months, almost full time, xilming sequences inside the institutions# The staffing we gave the show was a bare minimum! a writer and producer. When the programs were ready for the air a director was assigned, sets were made, and bli the usual details of production were taken care of. The point here, however, is that it was a long way from idea to image on the screen. One final remark about the Magic Window. Last fall I made a careful survey of the man hours spent in getting that show on the air. Taking into account planning, re hearsal and performance, I found this simple, three-a-week chiMren's program ate up a total of 133 man hours each week. If you wish to divide this figure by the stand ard college work week of UU hours you find three full time people giving their whole week to one show. But let's get back to the really slgmficant.number.... Ig peffl lg. ne eded to put a local show on the air. There is nothing magic in the nunber, but neither can you get a TV program on the air by magic. There it is, brothers in the faith. Keep your lenses uncapped but don't get a raster bum. We shall all die young...but think what beautiful corpses we will make. IN THIS ISSUE Foundation Grants and Special Projects#... NAEB Radio Developments........... Educational Television Developments.*.. Research Report — Dallas Smythe#.••••»••••••••••#•••< NAEB Tape Network — Richard Rider#...- Live Show TV Personnel Requirements — Edward Wegener, 1 - h $ - 9 ,9-16 ,17 - 19 19 ,20 - 21