THEY HAD IT RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING(BUT DIDNT KNOW IT)

THEY HAD IT RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING(BUT DIDNT KNOW IT)

Today Im going to talk about "early" televsion, circa the late 40's, when tv was in its infancy...
Many technological innovations were not yet invented or discovered, and the immediacy of tv(which mostly "live") was WONDERFUL!
There were lots of mistakes, and they were done live on tv, and we, the audience rooted for those people,and enjoyed the immediacy of the medium. As Tv "perfected"
itself down the line, thru the invention of editing on Video tape, most programs became "Sterile"...no unexpected things happening in tv, just grew into the robotic mess that it is now...
Everything is perfected....if someone makes a mistake..the tape stops, and they correct it...We know days and weeks in advance what programs will be on, and the nature of these programs..
About the only thing "live" today is the news...and the cute little comments that the commentators do during their thing on camera..other than that it is super boring...
Television, I believe was meant to be "live" and as such, it would be a little more expensive to produce, but well worth it.This medium cries out for that.
I would someday like to see(if I ever became a millionaire I would do it)an all LIVE TV station...where the rules are no tape or film..
Ever thing must be done crude, as it was in the early days...if we did have film or tape, it would have to be limited to showing old movies, in a format with a host something like Ben Hunter's tea time afternoon movie on KTTV 11 in Los Angeles...Ben, a charming man, was a little reminicsant in character of the
older Frank Sinatra, sat and chatted with guests, or you the audience during breaks of from the film..also Live "hawking" of products were done, as in the past from such pioneers as JOe KArbo(again KTTV- "ALL Night Movies")etc..
There were times when there were technical problems, and we got a slide with recorded music,etc. till the problem was cleared up. Even this was "exciting"...tv was not alwatys a 24/7 thing..and so it was a thrill to know that a station would
sign on and off, and to this we would look forward.I swear tv can be resuurected, as long as the desire to bring it back alive, the way I, and many others believe it should be...
and that is "LIVE" In fact the station could be called "live"
Steveo