evision: - Early Television Foundation

4 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION
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There will be many revolutions in our
war world. We can expect revolutions in
business,
as industry shifts gears from war production
to peace-time manufacture. There may be
political revolutions, as statesmen re-align the
world's boundaries and weld a stable, prosperous
peace. Surely we can expect a revolution in
transportation as the miles of aircraft assembly-lines
discontinue B-29's for Tokyo bombings
and start rolling out luxury sky-cruisers
for Trinidad week-ends. And there is one revolution
which will have a direct, immediate effect
on all our lives: the revolution in the arts of
entertainment and communication, with the
coming of
television.
Actually, television has already come. It is
perfected. Right now, the pictures
are almost
as good as 16 millimeter movies, in full, natural
color. Within a matter of months after the
war's end, you may expect to have a television
receiver moved into your living room for two
weeks' salary, or less.
its
weight in dynamite.
But that receiver is worth
It can add much to the
happiness and knowledge of the world's peoples ;
but if
mishandled, it may blow up in our faces,
causing damage which may take years to repair.