Slide 15 of 26
Notes:
The relationship of old to new media proved itself again in the lifetime of many people in this audience. In the United States, when television first came on the scene, the star entertainers and news and public affairs specialists were, interestingly enough, not from the world of film, as one might expect, but from the world of radio and newspaper. Television, coming into the living room as radio did before, was an extension of that medium and not of those which made the audience get dressed, leave the house, and go to the theater. Radio provided the model, and, in certain markets, still does (“talking heads”). Since then, television has found its own voice and provides an amalgam of the past technologies, and its deepest debt is to film. However, the importance of language, or at least of sound, has never quite been abandoned from the days of radio influence.
