The Missing Eye
\ ORDS, or words and sound effects, are often complete in themselves. An accompanying visual account then diminishes the enjoyment through spreading the attention too far. There are times, nevertheless, when one desires the "second sight" which television confers, as when Reg Williams over 3YC took us with him to the Alderman Islands to look at the Tuatara, The absence of visual experience in this programme, and also the lack of sufficient sensitivity in the equipment, somewhat blurred the imaginative focus. Pleasant therefore as it would have been to have seen the Tuatara, as well as to have heard its primeval gulp, or to have seen the many young reptiles on the denselypopulated islands, we could not. To answer Mr. Williams’s question we could not hear the cicadas, although we could hear the mutton birds screaming in before the oncoming storm, Thus we yroped our way to Reg Williams, and e to us, in a manner that detracted
om the programme, and for the first time I can put it on record that I hankered for TV. .
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 15
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180The Missing Eye New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 15
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