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...last week, seven of the nation's most powerful education associations* had banded together in a Joint Committee on Educational Television, engaged Brigadier General Telford Taylor, U.S. prosecutor at the Niirnberg trials, to argue their case before the FCC. The Joint Committee's demands: 1) at least one television channel (in the current very high frequency band) in each large city exclusively for educational use; 2) 20% of the channels in the ultra high frequency band, if & when these channels are opened up for television...
...half-hour presentation, His Brother's Keeper, unusual only because it was shot entirely in film, was the first example of a multi-camera filming method devised by Hollywood's short-subject veteran Jerry Fairbanks, assisted by Silver Theater Producer-Director Frank Telford...
...using three cameras simultaneously, Fairbanks and Telford were able to take medium shots with the center camera, close-ups and cross-shots with the side cameras. They completed the shooting of His Brother's Keeper in one day, got a minute of film for every 16 minutes of working time. The total production cost came to $6,000-no more than a similar live dramatic telecast would cost. "And if we do only one or two repeats of the show," says Telford, "the production cost drops to practically nothing...
Variety, reporting that "viewers throughout had the feeling it was live TV," hailed the show as probably answering "many of video's most complex problems." Convinced that television's future now lies in Hollywood, Director Telford saw the Fairbanks method doing away with a lot of strain and split-second timing. He predicted cheerily: "It will take the ulcers out of the business...
...production, second sale. (The first: a transcribed series, Murder at Midnight.) To shape it, Cowan laid out $5,000. Chief budget items: 1) a guidebook on local and state government written for the show by Historian M. R. Werner (Bryan, Tammany Hall), 2) three top scripters, topped by Frank Telford (Mollė Mystery Theater...