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TULSA DAILY WORLD SUNDAY NOVEMBER 27 1949 TELEVISION SECTION IB JPI BsESKKjjjggSCGfiSBESfil' itti IMOI adoy tfter down pnyaonl Designed and built to bring you the clearest TV picture a compact table model TV set with big 10 inch picture tube and built in antenna encased in a beautiful walnut tone plastic cabinet that resists scratches cigarette bum and stains Crosley designed and built a wonderful television set that will give you countless hours of the finest entertainment Come see it nowl GRAND CRAT Inc 1023 South Boston Phone 4 1274 Home of Television Sales and Service and Chris Craft Motor Boats Headquarters for tBral Ww SL' HL i ws 1 jffi 4 1 1 TELEVISION SETS New Zenith "Waldorf" Console with Glare Ban "Black" tube 165 sq in screen Luxurious cabinet of imported Gold Coast Afara veneers 47495 Only Zenith Gives You ALL These Sensational TV eatures Sensational New Glare Ban "Black" tube means unequalled viewing pleasure even in normally lighted rooms the way medical authorities say it should be viewed A new standard of pic ture quality Built in "Picturcmagnet" Aerial lets you enjoy Zenith's superb TV without on external aerial in many locations! Giant Circle Screen with Zenith Picture Control gives you real picture superiority Your choice of circular or rectangular picture at the flick of a i finger One Knob Automatic Tuning just one twist brings in station picture sound all pre adjusted Does automatically what other sets require 5 or 6 manual tuning operations to do 'Vandcucrs Appliance Department Main Street Entrance please! Maria Helen Alvarez KOTV General Manager re CONGRATULATIONS to the MANAGEMENT and PERSONNEL of 3 on the formal opening of Tulsa's first television station 3 801 EAST THIRD DIAL 2 5251 kindly occasionally cyn ruthless in meting out first appearance on NBC on May 16 1949 the their tele same time would provide adver tisers with a medium of superior sales impact She resigned her position to devote herself to full time study of the new medium SHOWS difficulties Census May Take in TV NEW YORK Nov 26 Television set owners may be counted in the next decennial census to be held in 1950 according to Business Week The magazine asserts the question you own a television will be asked by the enumerators if the extra cost of processing this query can be fitted into the money avail able for the counting job CLOCK OICIATES AS CRIME NARRATOR light and shadows of a scene electrical impulses to form image on the receiver tube Time an abstraction and a rel ative thing regulates the lives of most people more than they realize In everyday life the clock instru ment of time directs most actions from the awakening alarm to the setting of the same alarm upon retiring network tele vision dramatic series seen every Wednesday at 8:30 EDT illus trates that it is not only in the mundane affairs of daily living that we are governed by the clock Each half hour program presents a tale of crime or mystery or violent in trigue filled with mounting tension and doubt of the outcome The clock is an integral factor of each script acting as narrator of the story It is always in control of the development of the action sometimes ical often justice Since its Television series has employed outstanding actors from the stage radio and video in contemporary and period Instrument Is Always in Con trol of Action Development sires something that will occupy mind completely Television does CHURCH HEADS APPLAUD IV Maria Helen Alvarez general manager of KOTV is the only woman chief executive in television In appearance Miss Alvarez belies the usual' concept of the executive A strikingly at tractive brunette who might easily be mistaken for a member of her own talent department she has demonstrated unusual execu tive ability in establishing the KOTV operation the first TV station to be authorized in Tulsa and northeastern Oklahoma And a writing background al ready established she became in terested in radio writing in 1943 Starting her radio career as a continuity writer she branched rapidly into other departments rom program writing to writing and producing her own shows were quick steps During the lat ter period she also capably handled a regular newscasting as signment at the microphone Her contacts with advertisers and agencies in connection with her radio production work led naturally into time selling At the time she left radio she was an outstandingly successful radio time saleswoman In 1947 Miss Alvarez decided that the infant television industry offered far greater opportunities for creative expression and at the At about the same time George Cameron jr head of the Cam eron oil interests also became in terested in television as a business venture Later that year Cam eron was introduced to Miss Al varez by a mutual acquaintance it was only natural that conversation should turn to vision Subsequent conversations suited in definite plans and the organization of Cameron Tele vision Co which Miss Alvarez heads Cameron who has oil interests in the Mid Continent Rocky mountain and California oil fields is principal owner of KOTV with 70 per cent of the stock Miss Alvarez owns 15 per cent and John Hill a former executive with John Roebling Wire Rope Manufactur ing Co is commercial manager He owns the remaining 15 per centof the stock MARIA HELEN ALVAREZ KOTV Manager Television Constitutes An American Adventure If you happen to overhear the conversation of television experts as they are talking shop you may catch such terms as synchronization and scanning Synchronization is the process of keeping the moving beam of elec trons in a picture tube in a receiver in step with the beam in the studio camera tube so that both beams move in synchronism Scanning is the process of de flecting the electron beam in a camera or picture tube so that it moves at high speed from left to right in a sequence of rows or lines from top to bottom thus changing into the plays The scripts are in the main based upon video adaptations of scripts originally penned by Law rence Klee for the past video series of the same title is produced by Ern est Walling and directed on alter nate weeks by Lawrence Schwab jr and William Corrigan Larry Semon is the voice of acquired The latest shows the number to be 000000 PROVIDES QUALITY Even with technical solved the question was raised could television provide shows of a quality to meet the high standards of entertainment demanded by the American public? Television responded by devising its own production techniques and methods of expression by daring to experiment with new forms and formats by developing programs unique to this most versatile of all media of mass communications While there is still much to be done in the development of new pro grams of course the fact remains that many of newly con ceived shows have been enthusiastic ally acclaimed by critics and the public The infant art of television was readily welcomed by commercial sponsors A glance at the NBC tele vision roster for example reveals how American business and industry brings the public programs ranging from classic productions of litera ture and the stage to the best in music and ballet as well as enter taining comedy shows and exciting sports events Without resorting to superlatives it is evident that television is des tined to grow as a medium of mass entertainment until it has no paral lel And by no means to be over looked is the unprecedented influ ence television will inevitably bring to bear on the cultural religious educational and economic life of our nation and its people or television is a medium of mass communication that translates into quickly comprehensible terms the sights and sounds of all that is in spiring and worthwhile in history literature the arts and sciences and current events When the corner stone of the United Nations edifice was laid in New York for example television cameras were on the scene to make this significant event in human and international relations available to millions with the click of a switch TOOL OR EDUCATION As a tool for education and in formation television is a powerful force for the building and strength ening of American democracy The strength of a democracy is com mensurate with the knowledge tol erance and understanding of its people and television will prove surely to be one of the greatest in struments ever devised by the minds of man to enhance the wisdom and character of a people through the dissemination of truth and knowl edge Economically television is adding enormously to the wealth of the na tion employing Americans of varied skills and abilities by the scores of thousands As an industry tele vision is an unanswerable challenge to those who have proclaimed in recent years that frontiers of eco nomic development were closed Television an infant giant in indus try is just beginning to grow Television is new but the televi sion story is far from new to Amer icans the story of an enter prising people who undaunted by difficulties or defeatists convert an idea or an ideal into a larger than life reality Legislators in twelve states have introduced bills to prohibit the in stallation of television receivers in motor cars A manufacturer of car radios however has reported satis factory results from TV sets in stalled experimentally in the back seats of Chicago taxicabs A possible effect in the interest of safety he said is that receiving sets the rear seats probably would cut down on back seat driving Medium Is Playing Major Role in Campaign for Youth Betterment Car Television for Back Seat Only Television Experts Discuss TV Terms fnr teen agers is expressed by the Rev Harrison Thompson pastor of the Methodist church in Vincen town Pastor Thompson be lieves it is wrong to blame children for running the streets and getting into trouble we are willing to take steps toward giving them something better to occupy their time An adult is content to sit down with a book but a child de his Quietly but effectively television is becoming a mighty weapon in the current campaign to guide the ener gies of children and youth into cultural and educational fields In areas now served by television all over the country teen age tele vision clubs are springing up under the guidance of church educational civic and sports leaders gathering youth of the into the wholesome atmosphere of clubs church halls and social centers of fering televised cultural education al and sports programs and clean entertainment A survey of civic and church leaders indicates that television is a for clubs recre ation centers and church groups Television they believe has a compelling attraction for the alert teen ager INTRODUCED IN 1947 A number of child welfare lead ers recognized early that television gave them a new and powerful means for attracting children to the church and supervised clubs In Camden for example Rev Nelson Hoffman the pastor of the irst Methodist church intro duced television to his charges in the summer of 1947 and from the start the game room held capacity crowds of happy healthily excited youngsters on each television night: The Rev Mr Hoffman is con vinced that the of a television set is the finest thing available to the church and of in terest to the younger people for rec In Buffalo recently the possibili ties of television in the church were demonstrated when the consecration fthe Rev Dr Scaife as the seventh bishop of the Episcopal diocese of western New York was televised The entire ceremony was viewed by television in 36 Episcopal churches in the area or the first time in history the enthronement of a bishop was viewed by thou sands of churchgoers sitting miles away from the ceremony IMPACT ON RELIGION Commenting on the precedent setting television event Bishop Scaife said after the ceremony: feel that television will have a great impact on the religious field Its educational value to religion is extremely great While it can never take the place of actual attendance at church services it can vitally supplement and enhance the relig ious techings of the church I can foresee television receivers in churches parish houses and other departments of the church where they will prove an invaluable edu cation In Media a small Pennsylvania town some 10 miles west of Phila delphia the local club is supervised by the chief of police Malcolm Loughead The television nights find 150 or more persons crowding the clubroom and Chief Loughead re ports that is almost unbeliev able to witness the enthusiasm of the kids as they watch topnotch sports events from a seat? It does your heart good to see those exuberant But Chief program does more than just entertain teen agers it provides the youngsters of his town with an absorbing activity and a healthy atmosphere in which to spend their spare hours TEEN AGERS The keen interest of teen agers In television is illustrated by the reaction of youngsters in Lansdale Pa The community youth recreation center decided to install a television as soon as funds could be appropriated But the kids waiting They or ganized a special to raise funds for their television set The television club idea has its influence on older groups as well To ather John Donnelly Catho lic chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania came word that many students interested in television were unable to view their favorite programs in a suitable place ather Donnelly immediately arranged to have a receiver installed in the uni Newman hall TV DOES IT the receiver was he said fondest hopes were surpassed in realization We have been successful in interesting not only the residents of Newman hall but also many students who live eiseunere on tne campus The keynote of television By NILES TRAMMELL Chairman of NBC Board Television is at least one American post war dream that has come true on a scale to astound optimists and confound pessimists The specatcular development of television in' these few swift years is actually a story as old as the story of the pioneers who braved and conquered Amer vast Western frontier The story of television in fact is the old but ever new and changing American story of achievement No longer than three years ago many were saying that at least a decade must elapse before any major national development could occur in television Technical financial and production obstacles would be insurmountable for at least ten years On the surface these pessi mists had a good case But look at the picture today Ninety television stations are in operation as compared with five three years ago and sixty million people live in service range of these stations To keep current in the count of television receivers is im possible so rapidly are they being tabulation almost 3 1 jgit BL It i V'O? 4 I KOTV 1 "Proclamation" WHEREAS the citizens of Tulsa are vitally interested in the develop ment of television and recognize its tremendous force in the awakening of social consciousness and WHEREAS this new medium of thought exchange will create a great awareness of our fellowmen their problems their needs and their ideals as well as being a mass educational force for all ages and WHEREAS knowledge that has been gathered in museums observa tories planataria and galleries can be brought to the home and the classrooms and programs graphically depicting the pleasures and benefits of previously little enjoyed leisure activities can easily create a happier way of life for many people and WHEREAS television is a new industry that has been created from a highly developed but comparatively unexploited science which will provide hundreds of thousands of new jobs throughout the nation without destroying jobs in other industries and WHEREAS to the limited sense of hearing will be added the far more informative sense of sight enabling an audience of millions to judge with infinitely superior accuracy th? aspects of educational and entertainment programs and WHEREAS through the efforts of the Cameron Television Company? this new form of communication is brought to the people of Tulsa and others in northeastern Oklahoma a day has been set aside to focus attention on this new medium NOW THEREORE I Roy Lundy by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Tulsa hereby designate Wednesday November 30 1949 as TV DAY in Tulsa and do call upon all citizens to observe the official opening of Television Station KOTV and to co operate to the best of their abilities in making the event a success IN WITNESS WHEREO I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of Tulsa to be affixed this 21st day of November in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred orty nine ROY LUNDY Mayor of the City of Tulsa KOTV TU START VIDEO COURSE TwoHours College Credit Offered Students in ebruary KOTV and the University of Tulsa will jointly sponsor a college course in television starting ebruary 4 it was announced Saturday The course undamentals oi will be taught by the combined TU and KOTV staffs Students will meet each Saturday from 10 a to noon in the KOTV studio En rollees will receive two college xredit hours on the graduate level in will cover related fields of video produc tion directing engineering pro gramming management sales script writing filming and facilities SPECIAL INTEREST The course will be of special in terest to many outside' the college situation an advertising agency executive who needs factual infor mation about this new media a radio performer who wants to enter the field a theater teacher who will be using TV or preparing students for work in it for instance Information about enrolihg may be received by contacting Professor Ben Henneke head of the TU speech department Lecturers in the course will be ex perts in the actual business of tele vision Ronald Oxford KOTV program director will lecture on production directing Oxford former producer at KI NBC TV station in Los An geles was one of the organizers of NBC TV courses at Columbia Uni versity organized TV classes at UCLA and in the School of Radio Technique Los Angeles TV Engineering and how is dif fers from radio will be explained by George Jacobs the only man in the industry to build four TV sta tions Jacobs KOTV chief engineer was last associated with WBAL Baltimore Maryland Miss Helen Alvarez manager of KOTV will lecture on station man agement Miss Ilvarez started in radio in 1943 and has a background in continuity writing producing and sales She resigned from radjo in 1947 to prepare for a new career in TV SCRIPT WRITING Script writing will be taught by Randolph former KVOO pro gram director who taught radio writing for two years at TU John Hill KOTV commercial manager who has enjoyed wide ex perience in sales work will lecture on TV sales ilming an important part of TV technique will be taught by Hero ugntman More courses on the graduate level are being planned at the Uni versity of Tulsa to include a class in TV production directing urther TV activities at the uni versity will feature televising of theater productions The first in this series will be prize winning play by Dr Beau mont Bruestle of the TU faculty Enthusiastic audiences of children and adults saw the show last month in a week's run on the campus The TU cast which appeared in the world premier of the play will perform again over KOTV December 15 and 16 The Kendall Hall theater stage and large studio of station KWGS were designed with tele vision pick ups in mind University of Tulsa now pioneer ing in television education has done outstanding work in radio education both for students in radio and for radio listeners TU operates KWGS serving a discriminating segment of the radio listening audience as well as offering students an unmatched op portunity to gain experience in radio practices BIG NAME TV SHOWSONKOTV Programs rom ive Net works Will Be Televised for Video Audience KOTV will have the biggest name television programs from five networks Miss Helen Alvarez sta tion manager has announced Network affiliations include ABC CBS NBC Dumont and Para mount A sample of shows to be televised include The Clock Lights Out Who Said That? This Is Show Business and the red Waring show Also to be televised on cnannel six are Ed Wynn Perry Como and Morton Downey Special children shows will in clude Time for Beany and Kukla ran and Ollie uture programs i include Ar thur Godfrey sponsored by Lig get Tobacco Co with the Newell Emmett agency in charge of pro duction Milton Berle sponsored by Texaco with the agency in charge Toast of the Town headlining Ed Sullivan with the Kenyon and Echart agency in charge There will be a newsreel each night shown 18 hours after being processed in New York Later the station will have its own local news reel as an addition Other programs will include Hol lywood Screen Test Blind Date Korel Pandit Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians Vincet Lopez and Wrestling from the Olympic in Los Angeles Another feature will be a local cooking show The Oklahoma Nat ural Gas Co has installed a $7000 kitchen in the studios Viewers will soon watch foods being prepared by experts Entertainment Value in Cartoon Commercials a booming cartoon com pany in Hollywood which may do something for television that radio never completely' accomplished make the commercials entertaining! United Productions of Ameri ca headed by youthful Stephen Bosustow who has some very defi nite ideas on the entertainment value of the commercial message as much as the product we are selling is cartoons we came to the conclusion that cartoons done well could sell with a Bos ustow said commercial punch is increased because by combining entertainment it is fun to NBC Lays uture Plans ABOUT 5000 SETS IN TULSA DISTRICT 1 Local Dealers Report Sales Exceed ing Present Supply of Receviers An indication of grow ing popularity in the Tulsa area is reflected by a recent survey made by the Radio Manufacturers Assn Records as of November 1 reveal that approximately 5000 television sets are owned and operating within a 50 mile radius of the city One Tulsa dearer announced that he had sold 50 sets in one week Other dealers reported the demand for receivers is exceeding the supply Some distributors are already tak ing orders for delivery as soon as shipments arrive It is estimated that 50000 tele vision sets will be owned by Tulsans alone within the next two years Ap proximately 125000 sets are expected to be installed in metropoli tan area within five years The total number of receivers estimated for the next two to five years does not take into account the thousands of sets which will be located within reception range which includes northeastern Oklahoma portions of Arkansas Missouri and Kansas Colgate Theater Has Nearly Year In Television The made its television network debut on NBC on January 3 1949 and since that Mon day night has filled the half hour spot from 9:00 EDT with the top magazine fiction adapted es pecially for their video offering Such slick successes as inds by Philip Wylie and Wife is a by Wil liam Post Jr and Price by Max Brand and many others have been translated into thrilling television presentations originating from New York video studios ollowing a policy of bringing top names to its viewers the Colgate Theater has listed among its past players such stage and screen lum inaries as Sidney Blackmer Romney Brent Richard Hart Cole man Neil Hamilton aye Emer son Ian Keith Alexander Kirk land and Peggy Conklin Many more are slated to appear to interpret the best in magazine com edy drama and mystery in the weeks to come New Slang One of the more popular mis conceptions regarding television is that it has given birth to a whole new crop of slang phrases Actually video technicians employ terms which have been commonplace for years in the theatre films and radio The one bona fide newcomer is the word A is an un wanted secondary image appearing with the basic picture on the re ceiving screen NBC admits that plans for a West Coast television network still are in I the formative stage? It is assumed to BaKersfield then car ried by coaxial cable to San ran cisco and vice versa irst educational station to offer college credit by air KWGS broad casts to 40000 families in four states University of Tulsa officials realize an obligation to make higher educa tion available to more people The school was a charter member of the University Association for Profes sional Radio Education KWGS an associate member of the National A A 4 7 rl nff ANM1 UM 11JI1 til DI DdllUnMCi Long range TU TV plans include lor the present that eventually pro televising college classes and special rams will be beamed from Los 1 AntTOlac Un rs I educational snort subjects lor in school viewing Cameraman Must Be a Diplomat NEW YORK Nov To the layman looking on rehearsal or broadcast of a television show the work of the cameraman looks easy just pointing the instrument here and there as orders come through his head phones from the invisible director in the control room and being pushed or pulled as the director instructs his dolly man the television camera man is anything but a mere cam era pointer The technical knowl edge alone required of him is im pressive indeed there are a coupls of dozen knobs on a bulky tele vision camera and the operator must know how to handle them and fast But the technical know how is only the foundation of a televi sion equipment Paul Wittlig who as CBS TV manager of technical operations has super vision of among other technical men the 16 cameramen in the New York studios sums it up this way: "A television cameraman natur ally must know photography and electronics He must have good hand and eye co ordination He should have a flair for good com position He must have an under standing of show business and an understanding of the particular show he is doing or instance if it is a sporting event he must know the particular sport in that show as he must in a dog show or the rodeo The cameraman on a dramatic show must know thea Byron Paul two years a CBS TV laboratory technician the next two years a top studio and remote cameraman and a director since eb 20 takes it from there: good cameraman loves hii job and is sympathetic to the di rector Regardless of where he got his start he must have the crea tive instinct for every television picture has the elements of a painting director usually outlines the squence of the pictures and in general leaves the specific work to the cameramen giving him in dependence between the di rector and the cameraman is of utmost importance for the cam eraman must almost anticipate directions He must know what the other cameras are doing and avoid getting another camera into the picture It is true television cameras do get into pictures other cameras are making but it happen often good all round cameraman really should have an understand ing of all the arts In practice cameramen in general are fitted to the programs that are their specialties Sports lovers work on sports programs drama lovers on dramatic programs and so Where do the television cam ermen come from Six of the CBS New York crew were pro fessional film cameramen before their television jobs either for newsreels or documentaries Al most without exception the CBS men have been amateur movie cameramen as a hobby But most of them come from radio where they were techni cians and hence qualified as spe cialists in electronics Some were engineers some sound techni cians A dolly man who rolls the camera and its platform Into place as directed is naturally in a good position to learn the work of the cameraman himself Paul had a final observation of a good qualifications that are strictly non technical must have the ability to get along with Paul said engineers stage hands the director sound man other cameramen He must be a studio Rash Promise Joe Dundee former world cham pion welterweight realize the extent of his generosity when he offered drink on during a television interview in his Baltimore bar In jig time his bar became filled with patrons from those for blocks around LUMBER COM ii.