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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
000159
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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'ENTER THE NEW ART—' H .ERE's a pass to visit a television studio. Hang onto it. They're hard to get. Oh, it isn't difficult to get a ticket to attend a telecast; your radio set dealer can arrange that for you easily. But there you sit in a large auditorium with five hundred people, and see most of the program by projection on a theatre screen. Only occasionally do the dazzling over-head lights go up in bril- liance, while the television cameras photograph you, the audience—laughing or applauding. No, this is a much rarer privilege. To go into the control room. Stand beside the men who are actually directing the program, and watch the whole production over their shoulders. This is a commercial broadcast we're going to see tonight, a half-hour weekly show, spon- sored by a nationally-famous food manufacturer. The date—roughly fifteen months after the war. The industry is bean-stalking through its adoles- cence. A coast-to-coast theatre-network has 140