Magic Casements
T was a wholly fascinating hour I spent with the BBC mobile microphone in the Window on- France ptogramme from 3YA on Sunday, October 9. All our mative technicians are at school to the BBC for programmes of this kind and this one was a model. It was artful in its contrasts, deft in cutting and composition, and subdued the ragged skeins of human interests to a coherent pattern, The hour swiftly flashed by. Heaven knows what it costs in time and money to make such a programme. The recording car travelled 2000 miles from Rouen to Marseille, and the difficulty of rounding up comprehensible speakers must have been formidable. From the outset they shrewdly gained our sympathy on this point by letting us hear some of the incomprehensible ones. The narrator kept himself well in the background, emerging from impersonality occasionally to keep in touch with his audience, and the authenticity of the voices, and the clash of viewpoint and attitude carried the programme through. Nor did the programme date, though it was made 18 months ago. Even French politics, despite their reputation for rapid change, chose to remain fairly stable over this period. The New Look is not yet old and the Black Market is still with them.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 540, 28 October 1949, Page 11
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212Magic Casements New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 540, 28 October 1949, Page 11
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