Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telephone TV. A "picturephone" that conveys both the voice and picture of a caller was announced by Bell Telephone Laboratories. A mlniature TV camera flashes a head-and-shoulders picture of the caller over an ordinary telephone wire to a small screen at the other end of the line. The picture, composed of 2,400 dots changes every two seconds (the standard TV picture changes 30 times a second) can be cut off or on by flicking a switch. Bell scientists, who have watched and listened to each other on a hookup between New York and Los Angeles, refuse...
...overall, the networks did a fascinating job of hustling televiewers inside their biggest studio. To make things easier, they superimposed arrows and circles on the screen to single out key figures. NBC commentators loomed into view in the shape of triangles, sometimes peeped through keyholes. But as ABC's debearded (for TV) John Vandercook mused: "Sometimes I think we suffer from embarrassment of riches...
...ubiquitous TV eye produced new techniques and new enterprise in the press. Every major news-gathering outfit monitored the convention on the TV screen. Legmen still rushed to the telephone to report news breaks to the wire services, but the first United Press bulletin on the Truman endorsement of Averell Harriman came from the rewrite man who saw it on TV. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's convention speech was hard to hear in the hall, so the Associated Press used TV sets for coverage. In New York, the Times took the tally on the presidential ballot off the screen...
...Story. In the face of the TV screen, the newspapers' old running story of the full convention became somewhat less important (as the newspaper's play-by-play of the baseball game has become unimportant). The daily press threw new energy and new talent into exploring the offbeat byways of color and anecdote as well as the lofty heights of analysis and interpretation. Ironically, some of the best punditry came not from Chicago but from Washington, where Columnist Walter Lippmann watched the convention on TV. Some of the sidebars ran to outlandish trivia, e.g., the contents of Adlai...
Though pad-and-pencil newsmen competed briskly with the electronic press at the scene of the news, each getting constantly in the other's way, there was actually no competition between the TV screen and the printed word. They supplemented each other. When it came to speed and high fidelity to the news at the instant it was breaking, TV was in a class of its own. By the same token, for those who could not spend hours before a TV screen or who wanted the story rounded up and interpreted, readable at their own pace and convenience...