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344 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
been previewed at a theatre. Many scenes register differently from the way anticipated, and changes are made after the audience reaction has been determined.
The motion picture, however, should be prepared to face a readjustment period when television becomes practical. Most assuredly, in the beginning, the novelty will evoke wide interest. But after the newness wears off television will find its usefulness and its proper groove, and become just another comfort of modern life, as radio is. Not for a long time will it be able to offer home entertainment that will compare with the highly specialized technique involved in sound motion picture production. The present interest in television, as a matter of fact, is founded entirely upon reports of brilliant laboratory demonstrations. At the present time there is no means of satisfying the demand for reliable home television equipment, although no one doubts that the technical obstacles will eventually be overcome and that practical operation will become a fact.
At the present time, however, television is limited to sending crude pictures, consisting at best of but a few hundred image points. While the pictures themselves are very, very far from perfect enough to provide entertainment after the novelty has worn off, it is quite apparent that the progress that has been made so far is the type that is known as pioneering in a new science. Therefore, these earlier results must not be taken as indicative of the perfected form we anticipate any more than radio broadcasting could have been appraised originally by its early beginnings. An efficient and perfected television is almost certain to come because of the intensive research now in progress in the important electrical organizations. Building more elaborate transmitters is quite feasible, but this involves the utilization of enormously increased frequency bands for the transmission of the resultant signal. When