Author: Louis A. Sposa

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9781332203482

Excerpt from Television Primer of Production and Direction Television! No word has ever been so filled with magic. Youngsters in school dream big dreams of futures in the field, as actors, as writers, as daring field cameramen, as powerful producers, or as station executives. Advertising officials fancy television as the final charge in saturating the market with their clients' merchandise. Educators visualize magnificent advances in the general knowledge level as television grips and molds the mentalities of our people. Idealists long for television to serve as the champion of society, eradicating interracial, international, and interreligious misunderstanding. It will fill the voids in our lives even more effectively than docs radio. Years of anticipation have whetted the appetites of our people for television. Its name is magic. As with all things of magic, television has been surrounded with an aura of mystery and unreality. Strange powers have been attributed to it and strange conceptions of it have become prevalent. All this is perfectly understandable, but it is a peculiarly unhealthy atmosphere for the growth of a well-grounded, intelligently controlled, socially constructive, and economically sound industry. Only widely disseminated facts and blunt, unromantic, unvarnished truths can correct this situation. Everyone concerned with television, from the transmitter manufacturer to the purchaser of an inexpensive receiver, should know and understand television as it is; not as a glamorized, furbelowed, distorted fantasy, but simply as a medium of electronic circuits, ideas, entertainment, and service. The attainment of this knowledge is not a simple matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.