Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. Frederick Chase Taylor (Colonel Lemuel Q.-"People have more fun than anybody"-Stoopnagle), 52, famed comic of radio, vaudeville and screen; of a heart ailment; in Boston. As a continuity writer for a Buffalo radio station, the Colonel teamed up in 1930 with Announcer Budd Hulick to become the addlepated team of Stoopnagle and Budd...
...demonstration of large-screen TV proves satisfactory in Manhattan next month, Skouras promises that it will be working in a circuit of 20 Los Angeles theaters by January-and eventually in four or five networks around the U.S., each serving 500 to 1,000 movie houses. The hurdles are formidable: many technical problems are still to be solved, permission must be wrung from the Federal Communications Commission if air channels are to be used, shows must be found or devised that can outdraw free (and improving...
This month a survey of 3,000 Los Angeles TV set owners turned up only 32% who would be willing to pay the average box-office price to see TV on a theater screen. But of the same group, 59% were willing to pay $1 to see a first-run movie on their home sets. And, carrying the threat that theater owners fear most, Zenith Radio's President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. is plugging away to make that possible...
McDonald has FCC permission to make a three-month test in Chicago this fall of Phonevision (TIME, May 1). His gadget, inexpensively hooked onto a TV set, would enable the home viewer to order movies by telephone, at $1 each, for his living-room screen. The fee, charged on the monthly phone bill, would be split among the movie producer, the TV station and the phone company...
...shape of things to come is fuzzier than a static-fogged TV screen. Jittery as they are, the moviemakers know that a rapidly expanding TV needs their talents and their products. TV men concede that more than 50% and possibly as much as 90% of future TV entertainment will have to be on film. Smalltime independent film producers are already busily grinding out TV shorts. Even Skouras guardedly admitted last week to 20th Century-Fox stockholders that part of the company's studio would be devoted to making films for TV in the home. Going much further, veteran Producer...