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Title: BETTER VIEWING

Reference number: T0401

Date: 1957

Director: d. Gordon Arnold

Producer: Gordon Arnold

Production company: Scottish Television

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 40.29 mins

Description: Short programmes intended to assist viewers to get the best possible TV reception, to better enjoy watching Scottish Television programmes.

Credits: 1.
cond. E.M.Lee, BSc., Dundas Bryce
sc. J. McPherson

2.
conducted tonight by T. M. C. Lance
sc. T.M.C. Lance and John MacPherson

3.
conducted by Noel Stevenson, E.M. Lee BSc and J. Calderwood Miller
sc. J. MacPherson

Shotlist: 1.

Scottish Television presents BETTER VIEWING (0.18) Programme presenter talks in front of map of Scotland (0.35); Shot of two other men seated, waiting to take part in the programme (0.39); Back to the presenter (0.46); The two others enter the discussion (4.22); Diagram showing the diffraction of TV carrier waves (4.27); Another diagram (4.34); The two men discuss a household indoor aerial and how to obtain better reception (6.13); Shot of outdoor TV aerial (6.20); The two men again (9.31); Shot of diagram showing possible sources of interference with TV/Radio waves (9.47); Discussion continues with references to map of Scotland (12.43); Back to original presenter (12.56); Shot of page from TV Times, showing details of programme "Better Viewing" with coupon inviting readers to write in with any viewing problems (13.02); The presenter (13.11); End credits [Part 2 - Aerials] (13.26); "I'll Buy That"; Scottish Television Channel 10 - Your free TV Service (13.33) 508ft

2.

PART 1 BEHIND THE SCREEN; presenter to camera (0.21) Michael O'Halloran brought you the news (0.31) Scottish Television Presents [in and out of focus] Better Viewing (1.57) presenter to camera, subsequent interference on screen (2.06) and another man sits at desk talking to camera [reading from a script]; he demonstrates how TV transmissions are made, using a card and scissors (5.31) he explains how a television camera works with the aid of diagrams and the actual camera (8.57) the microphone is explainedwith the aid of a chalk diagram on a blackboard; explanation showing how television pictures move from camera and studio, to network control and to transmitter, intercut with c/u diagram (10.53) the presenter shows us a television set broken down into component parts (12.51) c/u page from Radio Times, showing the programme 'Better Viewing' and general summing up (13.06) ecs (13.32) 508ft

3.

Scottish Television presents BETTER VIEWING (0.57) presenter to camera (1.18) three men in discussion (3.02) c/u diagram, depicting six different types of television aerial (3.19) men in studio discussion (10.39) a man points to volume/channel controls on a television set; further shots of discussion (12.43) back to original presenter (12.56) ecs (13.24) 482ft