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on Canadian TV screens summer. and will be seen CFCY-TV Saturday evenings
51.00 p,l'll.. A.S.T. ”Country Hoe "Country Hoedown" is lovely Lor- dnwn” stars one of Canada's most raine Foreman. talented brunette
popula western fiddlers . . . King Ganam and the ”Sons of the West." familiar to Canadian
tor recordings.
The show is MC'd by Gordie is featured singer in the Tapp. who has appeared on such Imperial Room of the Royal York well-known TV shows as "Cross- Hotel in Toronto.
Canada Hit Parade." and "Pick the. Stars." and whose radio ser-
ies "What's on Tapp?" in which Tommy Common. Gordie keeps up a steady flow brings to "Country Hoedown” a ' thelpleaslns singing style and an in-
of music. gags. satires on
lthe Stars." Lorraine was booked audiences by their appearances on '. for a guest appearance on "The radio and through their RCA Vic- Jackie Rae Show." and later on
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llariety Show "Country Hoedown"
Young (19 , tall (6'4") Tommy Hunter is proving a favorite with viewers of CFCY-TV's Saturday night western-music series. "Country Hoedown". Tommy plays guitar with King Ganam's Sons of the West and shares the vocal spotlight with Lorraine Foreman, Tommy Common and the Hames Sisters. T
A new variety show "Country local scene. gind lmvermnlllonlv Hoedown" will make its first how has been 801"! IUD!!! 701' "V90
years. FEATURED VOCALIST
The featured girl vocalist on
from Vancouver. immediately after her television debut on "Pick
Currently she
"Holiday Ranch." plush
Also discovered on "Pick the Stars" was handsome. young s tenor who
gratiating personality. He began his professional career at the age of 11 on CBS Radiois "Microphone Moppefs."
Rounding out the cast are three pretty. red-heads from Toronto, the llames Sisters. who have been attracting a good deal of attention through their work in supper clubs and on CBC-TV. This summer. besides appearing w e e k l y on "Country Hoedown." the Hames Sisters will be singing with Art Snider and his orchestra It Wasaga Beach. a summer resort north of Toronto.
"Country Hoedown' is being pro- duced by well-known CBC-TV pro- ducer Drew Crossan.
Writing For TV Requires High Skill and Speed
Writing for television is a craft which requires skill and speed of the ”highest order.
Yet, TV probably offers one of the finest fields today for the writ- er with ideas and ability.
TV consumes ideas and mater- ial at a tremendous rata - with a constant demand from directors and producers for new ideas and more material.
That is where the necessity for skill and speed comes on the scene. The T Vscript writer facs the same fundamental problem as the writer for motion pictures and plays.
But he doesn't have the oppor- tunity - ur the time - to take weeks or months rewriting and polishing each script.
QUICKLY AND WELL
Thp TV writer must write both quickly and well. As a result most of the successful TV writers have come from the field of radio. where the assembly-line method of pro- duction resembles the problem in television.
The new writer -- one without experience in other fields - often gets an opportunity start on the
ground noor since he has no pre-formed writing habits and. another important factor. can I): hired for less money than the long established writer.
Writing for TV calls for visualis- fng the scene you are preparing- giving full consideration not onh
the plot. but the limitations as- loctnted with telecasting ln relat- ion to radio.
18 PICTURE TERMS
In other words one must think - and write - in terms of TV ntctui-es first and dialogue second.
The best place to learn such picture writing" undoubudly is in the field in which it is essential - tolevlslxm.
Yet. TV has a place for the writ-
er with talent - but only if thatl
talent is combined with the abtltty to adjust normal script wrtttll procedures to the unique and do naandtng needs of the
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since that time untll now if in one of TV's top programs.
The 1949 television linking of the East and Midwest in the
The modern miracle of televi- sion may be a miracle but it isn't modern.
In fact there is a school of thoulht that holds television to be even older than the 10th century. A man wrttinx "4.W) Years of Television" can prove that the dlscove 1 of the rock crystal lens in As-wrla arouad.3.0o0 B.C. was the actual foundation of modern television.
Discoveries that made telegraph and radio. even the tale alble were also essan to TV. Scientists in many lands have contributed their bits toward the development of '1'V.. and like other torms of radio, television was made possible by; electrical dis- coveries dating as far back as the 10th century.
But TV required additional dis-' covorlea which would turn elec- trical impulses into a picture on a screen.
The first solution to this prob- lem was found in the photoelec- tric cell. in which a sensitised aur- face sets up a feeble electric cur- rent when light strikes it. the in- tensity of the current conforming to tha intensity of light. V The Swede. Baron Joens Jacob Berzcllua. isolated the non-mat.al- lic clement selenium in i817. Lat- er it was discovered that the sub- stance conducted electricity bet- ter ln the light than in the dark. in 1873': young Irish telegraph- er named May. working with the New Trans-Atlantic cable. put two and two together and was able to make a photo-electric cell with Ielinlem which would stabilize the uneven signals which were com- ing over the cable.
CREATE IMAGE
in the 18701 In American. GR. Carey, hot on the idea of building a camera containing many tiny photo-electric cells. each connect- ed with a cell in a receiver. When the light passed through a lens and hit the individual cell in the camera its partner in the receiv- er would light up, and the result would be an image. The princi- pie is similar to that of the human eye.-
The idea of transmitting motion nicturrs by wire was advanced in H380 by a Frenchman Maurice Le- Blanc. His thocry was that motion could be suggested if a rapid ser- ies of still pictures were transmit- ted. The idea underlines both the movies and TV of today.
A German. Paul Nipltow, actu- ally succeeded in the lllllols in building a scanning disc for send- ing crude lmaga electrically over a wire. Pierced by a series of hol- es. it broke tho image down into . tiny sections when it was revolved rapidly.
Shortly before 1900 the cathode ray tube was invented. and the foundation for electronics, as op- posed to mechanical television, was laid. A screen at one end of the tube covered with fluorescent material would glow at any spot struck by a stream of electrons di- rected at it from another part of the tube.
Vladimir Zworkyn. Russian. horn electronics research scientist, is called the "father of modern television." He obtained a patent in the United States in 1923 on I vacuum tube. based on the rath- ode ray lllbf. which could gcan Q3 image electronically.
"ICONOSCOPE"
United States employed some 5.000 miles of television channels to t 14 major cities.
iillragnet" Will Be Presented
Each Tuesday
Dragnet. the tense dramatic show that has become one of tele vision": most popular features, is now brought to CFCY-TV audi- ences every Tuesday evening.
Based on actual cases from the files of the Lou Angeles Police De- partment. Drsgnct deliberately avoids blood-and-thunder heroics, and concentrates on reproducing the authentic flavor of big-city crime detection.
Much of the success of the Dragnet show is the result of care- ful background work on the part of Jack Webb. the star of the show. Webb plays Sergeant Fri- day ln the show and maaterminds behind the scenes. He started in Los Angcles as a radio announcer. where he did movie bit parts. He chanced to meet a detective who was serving as a technical ad- viser in films. who complained that far-fetched crime shows did not please real-life policemen.
tectlve on many calls and as a
authentic police show.
Out of his experiences grew the radio program "Dragneti which was first aired in 1949. It became a television series in 1961 and has consistently grown In popularity
Webb then accompanied this de- l result built the background for an i
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A vast number of signals must be transmitted in an infinitely l small space of timr to make this 1 process work. and for that reason i mechanical means could never . take the place of the electronic
The world's first regularly sche- duled telcrasls slarlcd in May of 1928 from General Electric radio station WGY. in St-lienectady. N.Y ' By the end of 1931 there were five l Ixperinicnlal at a t i o n s in the United States. All used mechani- cal scanning which gave only a 180 line picture as opposed to the 525 line pictures common today. The image was only one-and-b half inches square, enlarged to: three inches square by a magni-E lying glass.
ENGLAND FIRST . England was the first nation to
Regularly scheduled telecast: be-l gan there in I936. i in June of the same year Radio. Corporation of America distribut-i ed a number of receiving setsl throu':liout New York and startedl relaying signals from atop the. Empire State Building.
Six months later American Tele- phone and Teletlraph Company's. coaxial cable between New York; and Philadelphia was tested With
success. 5 The start of the New York
World's Fair on April 30. 1939. out. television sets on sale to the pub- lic. NBC started a 15-hour weekly schedule of all-electronic tele- casts in New York. Stations in Chicago and Los Angeles follow- ed suit.
The next significant develop- ment came when Columbia an- nounced development of color tele- vision. Another came on July 1, llm when the Federal Communi- cations Commission of the United States authorised full commercial television. A 1 But the progress of TV came to an abrupt halt in 1942 when the F.C.C. and the U.S. War Produc- tion Board jolntly issued a freeze order ruling out new construction except when cerltfied by military
until the end of the war
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