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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00089
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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70 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION engineers are doing yeoman work in preparing video for its nation-wide first-night, those who will be primarily concerned with the creative, production, and economic aspects are a long way from having a unified point of view. Some groups seem to want to do an act-in-one in front of the curtain before the show begins. Unless we look now toward an immediate meeting of minds to make the vitally important last-minute arrangements before the television play begins, what happens on the stage during the first-night performance may be a frightening hodge-podge. We've already mentioned the Association for the Advancement of Television. This organiza- tion, whose purpose it is to govern policy and long-range planning for the best interests of the industry, should certainly come into being dur- ing television's critical experimental period. It is important that now, during the so-called "childhood" of sight-broadcasting, the Associa- tion should bring to a focus the more-or-less dis- organized thinking in the industry's still fluid mind. The plan of the operation of the associa- tion may very well be as follows: representa- tives from every entertainment art and craft which may be related to the television business