European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Saw Lncoln during his entire Ter the White video men say that s should memorize their and rather than read them from a Iii script since the Bobbing of tieback and Forth from the Page is t Likely to impress movies that Holly Wood has Given Jession to be televised so far have those that have outlived their Box usefulness and the. Turkeys that had any in the. First place. I for Isu Tance television could show movie the Caliper of gentleman a agree Vinent it is a Good bet that films would replace sports As the preferred programs. Movie men and Tel visors Are putting Heads together to produce a work that will be mutually people thought of showing Oij shows in movie Heaters they they had a Small Gold mine on hands and Hollywood wants its of Cut this particular problem and others a or cd Asa whether Heaters should charge j v. Extra for television and what movies be televised have to be unav Lone beginning Tel visors approach dial Hollywood and asked for permission. To televise films free telling the studios they would be helping a Bud leding Young. Art to which one studio magnate replied we re hot in business Art we re in business for Are making some Pic. Of television at a Price and Paramount has big plans for the two studios it is operating. The Industry is nevertheless worried at video May do to Hollywood what talkies did to vaudeville i. E. Kill it Paramount s entering the Field is one be against the possibility. A poll of tors shows strongly divided opinions the subject of television s threat with concerned speaking authoritatively. Actor even went so far As to say did t know. Leh ably television does present terrible threat to the two great pro i3 elision a entertainment Media in movies and. Radio. Until now these " giants have had the Field to them compared to j them All other fess ional shows sports music. Thei theater been virtual piggies Asar As the. Size of audiences an amounts of Money involved Are con h corned. Video has All that radio has pc plus most of what the movies can offer even though telecasting seems to be concentrating on the bad features of both at the moment actually it does threaten radio very much since the radio people own almost All the existing television studios. Abc lbs and been give permission by the Federal communications commission to have five stations each under their control and Mutual a cooperative is planning a networks to service their Affifi fates. The first three can also have affiliates and service them too. Sports however have Felt no ill effects from Are even signs that video has wrought in new customers. A Tele Vised Tennis match Between Bobby Friggs and Jack Kramer lured 15,000 to Madison Square Garden s Box office on the night of new York s great Snow storm last Winter. The televised dodger last year set a hew attendance record. Televised hockey and football Haven to iut receipts by a cent the theater Guild ventured bravely into possible enemy territory and produced a play for program planners keep Busy thinking up new subjects for the cameras and hardly a week goes by without some new television first recently. The Weatherman was presented to his Public. He turned out to be former actor turned meteorologist named James Fidler not Hollywood commentator Jimmie Fidler who spiced up his forecasts with charts and simple Layman s language. It is expected that the Farmer s Home will be invaded by television with shows designed to help him get the most out of his crops an equipment this is. Not expected to drive Tity folks away from their sets if Tho popularity of radio shows like the National farm and Home hour is an vindication. Excerpts from current Broad Way hits Are going to be telecast for tie first show mister Roberts the camera went backstage to give an to Jar count of what makes a play tick. In Britain which incidentally had television operating three years before the u.s., g. B. Shaw s pygmalion was telecast in full with Margaret lock " in thie leading role. Last month mat i. Arturo Toscanini consented to be Tele Vised conducting a program of Wagner he was a smash hot. The Way the old Man screams pleads whispers and sings to his orchestra fascinated audiences. But one Swallow does not make a summer. And one Toscanini broadcast has not catapulted television into the realm of. Art. T he biggest Barrier to video manufacturers set in every parlor Campaign has been the High Cost of their pro. Ducts. The most expensive ready made console Type is a combination radio phonograph television receiver put out. By Dumont and it Sells for just under $2500. At the other end Are a number of. Sets that can be bought for around $160. Just a few weeks ago Emerson started supplying dealers with its $269.50 table Model with which the o Many claims is the lowest Price yet Tor a set wit that size screen. The average Price is $400. C. These prices do not include taxes antennas and installation costs to another $50 or More video is considerably More delicate than radio and you can t run a wire around the. Ridge pole and Start it up. It s. Gotto be set up and adjusted by experts before operation. There Are serious at tempts to get a set for less than a Hundred dollars on the Market and tap the lucrative Low income groups. The. Public will have to be patient How Ever for it took television which was not suddenly invented sixty years Roget where it is today. The possibilities of video s services to society Are practically a plumbed. It. Can be used in Industry to oversee As Sembly lines. Its educational uses Are. Obvious and such things As operation. Techniques have been taught to student surgeons through its use. The police might employ transmitters to handle raffle and Large crowds. Combat Conr Manders could use it to keep up to the moment on their troops in the look Forward to the Day when the universe As seen through the new 200-Inch Telescope in. California can be broadcast to them. An ahead of the minute toy manufacturer has assembled what it Calls a television kit with All the genuine parts and a detailed Sheet of instructions on How to put the thing Man with his Eye Way off on the horizon sees the Day when foods like steaks can be sent into the Home via television. All you re got to do is break Down the component molecules of a Steak transmit them and the let s face it Belle the jew is changing and we got to change with it receiver by the dining room table will fit them All together again Ujj medium rare ". of High prices Videc designers Are Busy Legal staffs pore Over the new. Problems of the new Field and the acc with applications for. Station permits. Twelve came in one Day last month and at thelast count 239.had been granted or placed of file. All this in spite of warnings often like Curtiss Plu Nuner acc s Tele vision. Expert who says investors might wind up by putting More into the. Deal than they can Hope to get out gadgets that the set owner can attach to his Model Are seen of the Market there is a magnifying device. That can be booked up to the screen doubling the size of the image a steel. Cathode Ray tube the heart of a Tele vision set has been devised to replace the expensive Glass Type. There is an. Audible scrambling for leadership in the. Field and no one is at All concerned with. The possibility of an economic recession 4n America remembering perhaps radio s experience in the great depression. While All business slumped radio comparatively speaking went blithely of its Way. The last two postwar periods i America have seen the Rise of great new industries and television seems clearly to have been tapped for greatness in this particular postwar world. Latest television models Are Emerson s $269.50 table Model with ten Inch picture tube and Crosier s $795 set featuring. Swivel View screen visible from any part . Later television experts Promise $170 set capable of reaching 23 stations
