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15 feet above the stage floor, providing ample facilities for all overhead lighting equipment.
I have tried a great variety of different colors, but generally use the "greys," preferably mixed with some touch of violet to warm up their coldness a bit. For more intimate decors, a scale of tan colors is used. As the top of the set catches most of the light, it is a good habit to paint the upper part of the set 2 shades darker, blending it gradually into the base-tone. Shadow effects, for TV, should be accentuated, in painting them on the studio floor and walls, wherever required, thus enhancing the dramatic effect of a set to a great extent. As in motion pictures, there are dozens of tricks and cut-corner effects born and developed by necessity.
To fill one network's daily requirements at the present time, 12 hours of broadcasting means 24 one-half hours of constant programming. Multiply this by all the stations in the country, enlarge their schedules to round-the-clock broadcasting and, bearing in mind the importance of the visual aspects in every program, one must conclude that the possibilities for the TV Art Director are unlimited.
Television is everything: the theatre, the film, the newspaper, the magazine— everything. One day, in a not too remote future, when the ideal size for a TV screen has been agreed upon, a combination TV setprojection machine, not unlike the magic lantern, will project a 3x4 or 4x6 picture on one of our living room walls, all in true to life color.
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coming directly over microwave from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City— with all the medium shots, the close-ups, which only a magic television Zoom lens can provide. And we will listen to the beautiful music, the divine voices, some 3,000 miles away. We will see all the minute action, every detail, just as we would sit there in New York, being part of a great evening, part of a most appreciative audience. And the people in New York will find equal pleasure in the great entertainment that will stem from Hollywood in identical fashion.
If the present seems fabulous,' with reference to the early beginnings of 1947, surely today one can again be equally prophetic in saying that "Television has a future!"