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Identifier: belltelephonemag4344amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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pokenwith all the force and persuasion, or lackof these, at his command. If taped andedited, the words and voice are still his,although the editing factor now has beenintroduced. The television story adds the visualelements of personal appearance, poise,presence and sincerity. Despite any edi-ting that is done, the viewer at home willreceive a firsthand impression of the manon the screen. This firsthand impressionis the most remarkable attribute of elec-tronic journalism, particularly television.It is unique. m As soon as we began plarming theworkshop, we knew that we neededhelp — professional help. Luckily, wefound two men who had been thinkingabout the kind of problem which facedus. One man was Tom Costigan, a radio-TV reporter who has covered thousandsof news stories during a long career. Theother was A. Burke Crotty, a radio vet-eran who had moved to TV direction inthe 1940s and who directed many of theearly television remote news and sportsbroadcasts. Mr. Crotty also had exper-
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Realism in every detail was stressed. Herewe see workshop studio as cameras are aboutto roll and the simulated interview begins. ience in coaching men in public life fortheir first TV appearances. Also needed for the workshop werepupils, students, trainees—we never didsettle on a satisfactory designation. Thereason was that the men we chose alreadyhad had considerable experience in ap-pearing before the public. We did not en-vision a basic course in public speaking.Rather, we looked for people who hadbeen on their feet before an audience;men who had the basic tools of articula-tion already and who could profit moredeeply and quickly from the kind of in-tensive introduction to a new environ-ment which we visualized. We saw the workshop as a two-dayjob. On the first day we introduced ourstudents to the problem we faced by pre-senting factual material similar to that 51 Youre on CAMERA! just discussed. Wo also enriched it withTV kinescopes and audio tapes of tele-phone people who had a

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