Word: saudek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world of 17 or 21 inches up to the big challenge of one of the most compelling and most perfect of plays? The answer, delivered lovingly by Omnibus, over ABC, was yes. In an uninterrupted hour and five minutes of clean-plucked verse and smoothly paced action, Producer Robert Saudek and Director Alan Schneider demonstrated that television can carry art into the living room and be at home there without touching forelock or shuffling in embarrassment. Drama Critic Walter Kerr condensed the Dudley Fitts-Robert Fitzgerald translation without wounding it. The cast was competent at worst, and particularly fortunate...
Written and produced by two Harvardmen--Andrew K. Lewis '49 and Robert Saudek '32--the feature will be televised in Boston a week from tomorrow, when it will appear on a WBZ-TV kinescope between 2:30 and 4 p.m. The New York area, however, will get the feature live this Sunday night on Channel 7. It will be part of the regular "Omnibus" show, between...
...Robert Saudek '32, Producer of "Omnibus," was misquoted in the Summer News of July 19 in the article reporting his speech at the Summer School conference on Educational Television...
...Saudek was reported as saying the following...
Speakers at the Conference generally agreed with Saudek that television leaves much to be desired as an educational medium. Yet they emphasized that, in the words of Edward Stanley of N.B.C., "orthodox education as such is not suited for broadcast to the general American public." Instead of just presenting a daily lesson in the conventional form, "television must illustrate the lesson by adding material that is not ordinarily available in the classroom," according to Herold C. Hunt, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...