evision: - Early Television Foundation

FOREWORD
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that this book will awaken producers to this
inevitability before they are faced with the,
tremendous yet unnecessary competition. For
Television will live on film production. It must.
The suggestions he offers for wedding Television
to the cinema theatre are imaginative and
yet highly practical. This should make the enterprising
exhibitor impatient for the day when
he can produce Television shows on his own
stage, before doubly paying audiences. But I
would be far more liberal than Mr. Lee as regards
offering immense home audiences
many
delightful hours each month in reviewing countless
old-time popular movies, long off the screen,
but to be welcomed again like long, lost beloved
friends. Today
the owners of such films are
adamant in their refusal; but time, and those
additional large reservoirs of revenue, now stagnant,
will soften their unreasonable resolutions.
How lasting their oaths never to make talking
pictures?
Mr. Lee's outline of a typical Television program
viewed in the home is indeed attractive. It
makes one's mouth water for the time when one
may sit in for such pleasant fare. Unquestionably,
here is
already a "vision impresario"