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

Page scan 000157 from "Television: the revolution,"

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
000157
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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138 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION formative and enormously entertaining half- hours are possible. This is a much-needed show for the television screens of the future. Call it "WHITE PAPER." A truthful analysis of the "why" of world events, revealed full scope by responsible spokesmen as soon as security permits. Nor is this a dry sym- posium. The men who frame "WHITE PAPER" will be men who know the medium in which they are speaking; they will make it engrossing through all of the visual and audible techniques known to the industry. Here is a program inter- esting enough to command a mass audience, im- portant enough to shape the thinking of a na- tion in the direction of progress and enlighten- ment. # # # That's the gamut. More rangey, more subtle in chromatics, more true of pitch than any other scale yet invented for playing on men's minds. The foregoing is merely an improvisation, a rough concert sketch of the visual symphonies which the program-builders of the new indus- try will create for us. For by television, anything is possible: from the broadest slap-stick to the