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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00025
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

6 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION trust, seeing in it a possible threat to the present pattern of information and entertainment. It is time that we junked these misconceptions in favor of an enlightened, constructive outlook on the future of sight-broadcasting. * * * Everybody should know about television, be- cause it's going to be "everybody's art." Televi- sion belongs to the people—more than motion pictures, or even radio. There isn't one person in the United States who won't be affected by television. It's going to change our living habits, what we do with our evenings, how we keep in touch with the rest of the world. If you happen to be a member of the entertainment industry, the television revolution will strike very close to home. If you happen to be a motion picture star, you'll find that the public expects you to learn a new technique, in addition to the ones you have already mastered. If you are the operator of a radio station, you can get ready to sink an- other quarter million dollars into your broad- casting plant—and it will probably be the wisest investment you ever made. Perhaps you're a motion picture exhibitor—you manage movie theatres. Television may bring longer lines to