Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ones. CBS's veteran Walter Cronkite. working his familiar anchor spot, gave the most informed, alert and consistently lucid commentary, held up best under the week's strain. His biggest coup: getting Ave Harriman inside the fishbowl to exchange blessings with Estes Kefauver on a split-screen hookup (denounced as "electronic fakery" by rival ABC). CBS's seasoned twosome of Ed Murrow and Eric Severeid was seen only fleetingly, bantering the big picture with the casualness of network executives at a ball game...
...Suite 408 of the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, Averell Harriman and his lieuten ants sat looking at the face of Harry Truman on their television screen. When Truman named Harriman as his Democratic candidate, Ave glowed all over, murmured: "This is marvelous." Forty-five minutes later, Averell Harriman, wearing a grin so wide that it almost could be seen from behind, came out to face television himself. Making small clucking sounds all during his statement, Harriman exulted: "I am deeply moved by this mark of confidence from my old boss...
...Royal Skyway suite of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Adlai Stevenson and his lieutenants sat looking at the face of Harry Truman on their screen. When Truman said the Democrats should name the candidate with greatest experience in foreign affairs, Adlai grunted, reached for his pencil and pad, began taking notes. Fifty-five minutes later, Stevenson fought his way through a crush of humanity to his downstairs headquarters, paid strained but polite respects to Harry Truman, and said: "I expect to be the Democratic nominee...
...McCleery has a formula, it is "selective realism," i.e., showing "with either delicacy or violence" what happens to a human being in a crisis. His favorite techniques are screen-filling closeups ("If an actor is talking, what's more important than his mouth...
...cameras no bigger than a Cracker Jack box), Dick Tracy walkie-talkies, mini-corders, creepie-peepies and giant telescopic cranes that can poke around into hotel windows from the street. ¶ Automatic tabulating boards, flashing the changing total of delegation votes, will be superimposed on the viewer's screen so that he will not lose sight of the main convention activity. ¶ Devices for splitting screens into five segments will enable viewers to see both the platform speaker and his party friends and foes at the same time. ¶ NBC will unveil an "ultra-portable" TV receiver so that...