RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

lover No. 1 had a mistress No. 2) One victim, one accused, four in the game: the husband, the wife, the two lovers...The film could show the same plot in an infinite series of variants (Uke a chess game) including the possibiUty of smcide... Trird example; traffic accidents The film would in the first and the second (and the third) case unwind (unroll, uncover) the plot according to a most logic кеу, respecting a certain (AristoteUan) dramaturgic consistence etc., etc. Whatwould the television do? The real television would offer both of these events (and others) devoid of all incertitudes, alternatives and possibilities. The course of the illness in its last moments would be followed continually, with precision, without апу blurry suppositions, from the moment of the switching on of the TV-cameras (or the television sets) to the moment of its switching off. Similarly, ”the complicated murder case” would follow the direction of real and non-ambiguous motives, circumstances and the accomplished act The real image of the events would be given by the television having the property of showing the momentary truth in the interval between its switching on and offri And while the film will permanently mechanically unroll its roll and direct the possible directions of the events (ге- and constructed), cut them up, anticipate, stop, start in the desired or assumed

4 This second example has a rather emotional importance highly influenced by assuraptions thatcould almostbe the reflexions of Jacques Bergier (editor of the Parisian review , a Ptanete, and author of the well known Limits of the possible) - is it possible to record history?... even as close in time as a traffic accidenl However, here our research goes in the direction of postulating a possible TV paradigm - the ideal formula of a telegenic television and it is in this sense that it should be understood.