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TELEVISION" 347
the screen disk motor and others. Every study of television, however, seems to emphasize the fact that its appearance in the form of a truly practical commercial receiver or reproducer is some distance away. Still, the ultra-enthusiastic televisionist dreams of the day when he can sit in an easy chair before an open fire in his home or club, and watch a World Series or football thriller reproduced on a screen by radio!
More power to such dreams! They are the stuff tomorrow is made of. I, for one, would never join the ranks of mere mockers and scoffers, and I trust that time will never prove me to have been an obstructionist. Yet I must be pardoned if I seem not quite sanguine of immediate consummation. It is one thing to believe that an improvement will come to pass; it is another to expect that it will come to pass before breakfast on the morrow. My heart is with the hopeful; my head counsels me not to look for everything at once.
To conclude, then, I do not look for immediate readjustment within our industry because of television; nor do I fear any great loss through competition after the first wild rush. There will be a period of transition, just as there has been within the motion picture field; but as we have bridged this, so shall we that, and perhaps more quickly and safely for taking thought in advance. Until the race loses all social instinct the theatre need know no dread of extinction. Who knows, who can say, that television may not indeed make its home — or its bow! — in the auditorium? The radio, if you recall, was going to put the newspapers out of business. It has not, for the simple reason that people wish to read newspapers.
The public has shown that it likes sound motion pictures. My confident prophecy is that the public will continue to like sound motion pictures.