Post by Mike Royden on Oct 15, 2003 8:33:57 GMT
"The Future of Entertainment." by Charles Morgan. Written in 1929 .74 years ago.
A prescient article on the future of televison from the BBC Yearbook 1930
it is too early to speak in detail of the probable effect of television on entertainment. It is not impossible that the time may come when, without leaving his armchair,
a man may be a seeing and hearing member of the audience in any playhouse, cinema or concert hall throughout the world. If this power is ever brought to mechanical perfection. there is little reason , except the desire to be gregarious, that anyone but a few should
go in person to any place of entertainment again; from which it follows that, for want of a local audience, theatres, cinemas and concert halls may be closed down
and all enertainment be concentrated in studios supported by an international organisation of televisionists. by this gigantic pooling of resources we might obtain the most wonderful entertainment the world has ever seen, but might alternatively, if the control fell into the wrong hands, see all entertainment debased to the level of international millions
or used for the vilest propaganda.
He got it so right,
A prescient article on the future of televison from the BBC Yearbook 1930
it is too early to speak in detail of the probable effect of television on entertainment. It is not impossible that the time may come when, without leaving his armchair,
a man may be a seeing and hearing member of the audience in any playhouse, cinema or concert hall throughout the world. If this power is ever brought to mechanical perfection. there is little reason , except the desire to be gregarious, that anyone but a few should
go in person to any place of entertainment again; from which it follows that, for want of a local audience, theatres, cinemas and concert halls may be closed down
and all enertainment be concentrated in studios supported by an international organisation of televisionists. by this gigantic pooling of resources we might obtain the most wonderful entertainment the world has ever seen, but might alternatively, if the control fell into the wrong hands, see all entertainment debased to the level of international millions
or used for the vilest propaganda.
He got it so right,