136 Miracles Ahead! 



with war applications as the goal, so that after the peace tele- 

 vision should be ready for a rapid enlargement, which will 

 undoubtedly far surpass that of sound broadcasting in the 

 post- World War I days." 



According to Mr. Stokley, televised moving pictures in 

 America have successfully utilized the device known as the 

 Schmidt camera. He says, "At the New York demonstration, 

 the projector was sixty feet away from the screen, yet the 

 picture, fifteen feet high and twenty feet wide, was almost as 

 bright as an ordinary motion picture. Perhaps, in the future, 

 with such a device, theatres will regularly show programs of 

 events happening in other parts of the world, at the same time 

 that they are occurring." 



The Actor Comes into His O e um 



Mr. Lenox R. Lohr gives a very interesting picture of the 

 "behind the scenes" problem of broadcasting television drama, 

 as compared with sound broadcasting and play production 

 in a theater: 1 



"In first-class theatre productions, at least several weeks are 

 allowed for rehearsals before the opening night, but the cost 

 of television obliges a producer and actors to prepare a 30- or 

 6o-min. performance for broadcasting in 5 to 20 hrs. of 

 rehearsal. 



"Another requirement of television production makes it 

 difficult for sound-radio actors to appear on programs. Tele- 

 vision actors must learn lines by heart; and although radio 

 actors are skilled in the subtle shading of words, they have 

 not learned to coordinate words with action. By no rational 

 process can we adapt the usual microphone technique to tele- 

 vision, because in television, as on the stage, we must follow 



1 Lohr, Lenox Riley, Television Broadcasting. New York, McGraw-Hill 

 Book Company, Inc., 1940. 



