Table 5.6 A Televisual Continuum
| Performance |
Space |
Proscenium |
Image |
Sound |
Editing |
Examples |
Comments |
| recorded |
theatrical |
literal |
one camera, fixed in place |
post-independent |
none |
Film D’Art, school-play recordings, the first TV shows |
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| recorded |
theatrical |
literal |
multiple cameras, moveable |
post-independent |
attenuated continuity |
The Honeymooners, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show |
The purest form of the multiple-camera proscenium schema |
| recorded |
sound stage |
virtual |
multiple cameras, moveable |
post-independent |
attenuated continuity |
I Love Lucy, The New Adventures of Old Christine, As the World Turns |
These examples do occasionally shoot on-location, but their principal mode of production is in-studio. |
| constructed |
sound stage, or on location |
virtual |
single camera |
post-dependent |
attenuated continuity |
The Andy Griffith Show, Petticoat Junction, Dallas |
Telefilm values. |
| constructed |
sound stage, or on location |
none |
single camera, post-dependent |
post-dependent |
intensified continuity |
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Scrubs, Miami Vice |
The purest form of the single-camera televisual schema. Style as a source of humor or carnivalesque pleasure. |
| constructed |
none |
none |
post-dependent |
post-dependent |
intensified continuity or discontinuity |
The Simpsons, commercials and credit sequences |
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