[QuadList] good thing video came along.....

[Greg Schmitz]

Not sure what this has to do with "video" being a "good thing."  
Certainly video production and distribution of international news at the 
time this article was published wasn't much cheaper than film. In fact, 
it could be argued that, at the time, video distribution was by far the 
more expensive option.  I would posit that the thrust of the TIME 
article points more to which segment of the media market TIME thought 
the money should  have been spent on.  I suppose the key phrase is 
"/leasing a line for $3,000 an hour to transmit
the pictures to New York" /Many outlets just sent prints of the film to 
the relevant markets at a much lower cost.

--greg

On 12/4/10 5:13 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> /The expense of flying film from Viet Nam,
> for example, developing it on the West Coast and
> then leasing a line for $3,000 an hour to transmit
> the pictures to New York for inclusion in a
> program, is likely to have an overbearing effect
> on news judgment. Even if the pictures do not
> live up to the raves cabled in by the man in the
> field (who probably had not seen them and was
> depending on his photographer's word), they may
> price their way onto the program.^/
>
> ^"Television: The Most Intimate Medium," Time
> (October 14, 1966), pp. 56-64.
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Greg Schmitz
Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA)
Anchorage, Alaska
greg /at/ amipa.org

The Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to media preservation and education to ensure long-term access to Alaska's moving image heritage.


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