THOMAS HUTCHINSO - Early Television Foundation

4 HERE IS TELEVISIONwhich the electronic pictures originating in the room may besent to the transmitter.In addition, there must be sound equipment, proper lighting facilities, ventilating systems, and spaceenough for scenery to be placed so that actors may walk throughtheir parts and be picked up by the television camera and thesound microphone. It must be of sufficient height to allow forscenery well above the heads of the actors and provide for lightsand microphone pickup without ceiling interference. It must beThree sets in operation at WRGB. Scene at left is on the air; announcer atextreme right. The remotely controlled lights are seen at the top of picture.adjacent to dressing rooms for the artists, scene docks for scenery,and storage space for properties and should allow for the entrance of all the large objects needed, be they automobiles,pianos, or elephants.The studio should be readily available to talent and the program staff; but so far there is a wide range in the location oftelevision studios. In New York all of the main television studiosare in the heart of Manhattan. For the most part they are inoffice buildings served by elevators with no direct door to thestreet. This is a serious handicap to program operations as manydesirable properties can not be brought into the studios. In England before the war, the BBC studios were in Alexandra Palacesome distance from the heart of London. General Electric's stu-