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'Electronicams' at work: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney being filmed by new process. A New Development May Settle The LIve-vs.-Fllm Controversy All television, for years, has been divided into two camps, battling fierce¬ ly over whether filmed or live shows are the better answer to the medium’s problems. The war may end suddenly with the advent of Electronicam, a new filming process which, the inventor hopes, will produce a filmed show with all the spontaneity, vitality and ef¬ fectiveness of a live one. Jackie Gleason is the first to use Electronicam on a regular basis. He has adopted the process for his Honey- mooners series, and he and his cast are putting on their show before a live studio audience. They run through the script without stopping to change camera “set-ups,” as is usually done in a filmed show. And the result is what Gleason likes to call “a Uve-on- film program.” The Electronicam, owned by the Al¬ len B. Du Mont Laboratories, was designed and developed by James L. Caddigan, former program chief for the Du Mont network. Basically, it combines a motion picture camera with a regular television camera in a single operating unit. In filming the show, the director calls his camera shots while watching the TV monitors in a TV control booth. Thus it’s possible to incorporate into the filming the fast production tech¬ niques that are an integral part of live television production. Secret of the Electronicam is an optical system that splits the camera’s 18