[GreenKeys] Teletype sounds in newscasts

[Bill Horne]

On 3/24/2020 7:23 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 2020, at 2:34 PM, Bill Horne<w4ewh at outlook.com>  wrote:
>>
>> The "Teletypes," I found out, were just Model 15 machine covers, each with a piece of yellow papers taped to the top to make them appear to be actual machines. Since they were always out-of-focus, I was told, that didn't matter.
> Oh, you must have felt so betrayed! I wonder how many spare covers Teletype sold to TV studios as props?

I didn't feel betrayed, but I did feel chastened: I suggested that real 
machines would look more realistic, and one of the producers took me 
aside and said "We sell soap. That's all we do. We already know how to 
do it, and we don't need your ideas."

So I learned a few things about television:

 1. Appearances *_are_* reality.
 2. They sell soap.
 3. New ideas are not welcome.

FWIW.

Bill, W4EWH

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