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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
000171
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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152 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION present any of the broadcast live for just four stations?" "I'll answer that," interrupts the producer. "As you'll see when we get on the air, many of the more difficult production sequences have been filmed in advance. But we like to do most of the show in front of live iconoscopes which are on-the-air right no<w. For that's television. The effect on all of us—actors, directors, tech- nicians—it's more electrifying. We get better shows. Not from a perfectionist viewpoint, per- haps. But our shows are more vital, more alive. Because the actors, the musicians, the camera- men, the engineers—all of us know there's an audience out there watching what we turn out this very second. It's a live audience. They're reacting now. That makes a difference in the way we work. It makes a difference in what goes up the television antenna, and what hits the 'videofilm.' Some day we're going to feed the whole country live, instead of by videofilm. We're going to be ready for that day. You see, film alone is the movie way; they take months to get a workmanlike production. Here we have to turn out hours of visual entertainment in a matter of hours of rehearsal. Knowing that