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...than a minor sideshow. Nobody bothered to watch it organize, except members' families and a few sightseers turned away from the big top at the other end of the Capitol. For the first time, the routine was televised (see RADIO); Harry Truman saw it on a ten-inch screen beside his desk...
...screen of television's future is not wholly dark: 1) a new, supersensitive pickup tube, four to five times brighter than its predecessor, makes candlelight do the job of a battery of floodlights; 2) construction of 44 new stations is expected to begin after FCC gives its ruling; 3) the Radio Manufacturing Association says that the U.S. is ready to build from 330,000 to 360,000 television sets...
...reversed, the foreground appearing to be the background. But printed on special "trivision paper" they are startlingly lifelike. The process is not yet ready for demonstration. But Inventor Winnek and the Navy hope to adapt it to colored lithography and to movies, so that human beings on paper or screen will be almost warm with life...
Popular song writers have come in for an awful beating in a series of film biographies. Following the other-world treatment given Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Metro wisely took another tack and put the life of Jerome Kern on the screen much as it should be presented in little more than concert form. If there is a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," it is the harmless sort of narrative involving no backstage inamoratas or tearful college reunions. According to the film, the greatest difficulties in Kern's life were a ne'er-do-well arranger...
...London last week six BBC staffers sat in a small, dark room and intently watched a television screen. From the screen stared the serious face of a young man; he was talking quietly. Suddenly one man in the audience dropped his head on his chest, fast asleep. Soon three others were asleep...