"Television: the revolution," ([1944])

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00012
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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FOREWORD ix that this book will awaken producers to this inevitability before they are faced with the, tremendous yet unnecessary competition. For Television will live on film production. It must. The suggestions he offers for wedding Televi- sion to the cinema theatre are imaginative and yet highly practical. This should make the en- terprising exhibitor impatient for the day when he can produce Television shows on his own stage, before doubly paying audiences. But I would be far more liberal than Mr. Lee as re- gards offering immense home audiences many delightful hours each month in reviewing count- less old-time popular movies, long off the screen, but to be welcomed again like long, lost beloved friends. Today the owners of such films are adamant in their refusal; but time, and those additional large reservoirs of revenue, now stag- nant, will soften their unreasonable resolutions. How lasting their oaths never to make talking pictures? Mr. Lee's outline of a typical Television pro- gram viewed in the home is indeed attractive. It makes one's mouth water for the time when one may sit in for such pleasant fare. Unquestion- ably, here is already a "vision impresario"