RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue
4) A similar burden of illusion-disillusion, which was fostered by the perfections of Шш, was a hindrance in the perception of one of the most sensational events of the century (the century has not ended yet, though) - Man on the Moon, when some people doubted whether this wasn’t just a somewhere in Texas (a similar but psychologically and in terms of medium different was the radiophonic »War of the Worlds« by Orson Wells).
what was going on. Suddenly, a tank came from somewhere into the frame of his camera. Soldiers jumped from it. The officer in front of them noticed the cameraman and pointed his gun to him. The cameraman zoomed in his camera to the revolver implying that he was shooting the officer as well. The cameraman zoomed out and widened the scene, the camera wavered - meaning that he was hit, but he widened the scene to show the participation of the other soldiers. One soldier pointed his machine-gun to the cameraman. The cameraman zoomed again. When the burst was fired in his direction, the zoom was widened again but the cameraman was already deadly hurt and the camera tumed to the sky and fell to the ground, with the cameraman... the event stayed registered on the film band, representing a specific document of an authentic event It is not difficult to guess why this example was chosen for comparison. Let us suppose that the television registered the same event The same event, under the same conditions would be transmitted by television directly, from the place of the event in vivo (point 1), while film would offer the event from the place of its happenmg but from the film band (point 2). There is no doubt that the event, in the television’s interference and imposture, imposition would gam in strenght as a document, and its authencity »ш vivo« will be of the highest degre, in апу case, it wxll have a less important difference than the one »from the tape« where the doubt can always exist that the whole thing was eventually arranged. If this event were to be reconstructed dramatically, played and filmed for television, and then emitted from the tape, it would not differ from a fil m > except for the technical elaboration - it would be an identical presentation »from the tape« and »from the studio« or some other chosen place, just as in film (point 3). In this case, television hardly differs at all from film. It is television from the tape ог filmed television. Another possibility exists which is closer to earher media more than television and that is in the mentioned arrangement of the happenmg and its placement in the studio (usually and most often ot a
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