Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1948)

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a personality as attractive as her song interpretation. two cameramen, program director, audio engineer, two video control technicians, a switch technician and a transmitter supervisor. When doubleheaders are played two crews are used, except for the announcer and his spotter, because of the fatiguing concentration required. The two television cameras that are used to telecast a baseball game are located in a camera booth hung from the upper tier behind home plate. In the same booth are the announcer and his spotter. While two cameras continuously follow the action of the baseball game and catch different views, only one of them is sent out over the air. The program director decides which view is broadcast. He and his crew are housed in a television control room under the stands. In front of the director are two screens — one for each camera. It is his task to decide instantly which view is the better and order it transmitted. * * * NEWSREELS are proving to be extremely popular on television; and why not — pictures of news and special events reach the televiewer as quickly as the day they occur. The Camel Newsreel Theater,.for example, which is seen at 7:50 every week-day evening over the NBC network — and the films are flown to other video stations throughout the country — shows FoxMovietone newsreels days before they can be shown Dumont's wrestling-match commentator, Dennis James, is as popular with the audience as Gorgeous George. At "Arch of Triumph" opening, NBC-TV's Bob Stanton caught Ingrid Bergman for her first television appearance. in theaters. And the theaters are getting nervous. # * * Word comes from France that despite limited budgets, television there is forging ahead. Radiodiffusion Francais executive Jacques Armand told recently of plans for a video station complete with a large swimming pool to be used for underwater scenes! * * * Television courses have been given in Eastern colleges for several years — but only for the technical side of the medium. However, North Texas Agricultural College, at Arlington, Texas, will offer advanced speech courses tailored to the television industry in the Fall. (Continued on page 79) TELEVISION SECTION 47