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...first experimental year, they settled on four subjects: English, biology, political and social science. Though the academic content was left entirely to the academics, each course was treated as a "show," with its own producer and technical staff. Out of more than 30 faculty volunteers, the colleges and TVmen picked twelve who seemed both able and telegenic enough to go over. Then, after a series of auditions, they chose each show's "star." But behind the four stars is a staff of about 60 colleagues who help prepare lectures, grade papers, and counsel students...
...After watching too many movies on TV, RCA Chairman David Sarnoff warned that "the true function of television will have failed if the film programming snowballs so as to become the dominant appeal." In an interview published by the trade paper Variety, Sarnoff holds out little hope that TVmen can save themselves from the movie blight. "Fortunately," he adds, "we have the public and advertisers to decide this for us . . . They may agree with us, or the movies-on-TV networks will take over...
...effects. But some of its best moments have been small ones. The New Orleans Mardi gras parade seemed lifeless compared to the efforts of a few deaf children in Baltimore to comprehend the rhythms of music through their fingertips. Sometimes, the nation does not look quite the way the TVmen think it should. For a 30-second shot in Weekiwachee, WWW moved in and planted 26 palm trees to make Florida more readily identifiable as Florida. When the program people wanted to show a ballad-singing miner going about his work, they flew the man 200 miles to a completely...
...seems to be demonstrating that music should be heard and not seen. In emphasizing video at the expense of audio on musical shows, TVmen often sacrifice good sound, and sometimes good music, without managing to get good TV. The televiewer who closes his eyes and listens can hear how crude, sloppy and badly balanced most TV music is. Opening his eyes and looking, he can see how overbaked or tasteless the images that go with music can be. Last week's musical shows ranged from a brand-new opera to the singing of vintage popular songs. Most were calculated...
...many of the home-grown products will bear a resemblance to U.S. shows. Example: Sunday Night at the Palladium, featuring such stars as Gracie Fields and Johnnie Ray, will be a vaudeville hour on the lines of Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. Basically, the commercial TVmen think the BBC incapable of offering them real competition...