Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors of this opus had great trouble with the censors. This is unfortunate in two respects: the show is now very clean and also almost incoherent to the average viewer...
...history's best-photographed war. For a look at this work, I recently dropped by Jack's editing room to find him barricaded behind some 10,000 feet of film for the twelfth chapter, "The War at Sea." As he flicked the knob of his film viewer, I saw a periscope's view of a torpedo-blasted Japanese ship. Another strip showed another side of the submariner's life-a U.S. jazz trio playing a jam session 150 feet under the sea. He showed me many other interesting strips-a Navy plane's gun-camera...
Milton Berle is "acknowledged to be the king of TV entertainers, but he is not universally liked by his subjects," many of whom think him "an extreme egotist" and "rude." His humor "does tend to emphasize physical action," and "the viewer feels uncomfortable when Berle is obnoxious and gets applause for it . . . In summary, Berle violates a major value of American society-that of self-control...
Besides the research project with controlled T. V., the N. C. A. A. is considering installation of "phonovision," whereby the viewer orders a football broadcast through a telephone call and has the broadcast put on his phone bill. Another system is "theatre-vision" which involves televising ball games onto movie screens and having audiences pay admission to watch the telecasts...
...stage sets for perfect vacations. Like stage sets, they are actually airless and flat, lacking both the deep perspectives of Renaissance art and the sunny sparkle of the impressionists. But all the details are there, down cold, as if under glass. It takes only a little imagination for the viewer to break the glass and bring the scene to life...