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CLINT EASTWOOD |
1930- ; American film actor and director |
| Americans have produced only two authentically original means of expression: jazz and westerns. |
• quoted in Michèle Weinberger: 'Clint Eastwood' in Rivages/Cinéma |
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P P ECKERSLEY |
Captain P P (Peter) ECKERSLEY
1892-1963; first Chief Engineer of the
British Broadcasting Company/Corporation 1922-1929; sacked by John Reith because of his divorce |
| The BBC was formed as an expedient solution of a technical problem; it owes its existence
solely to the scarcity of wavelengths. |
• The Power Behind the Microphone, 1942 |
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UMBERTO ECO |
1932- ; Italian critic and novelist |
| Don’t switch off your set; switch on your critical freedom. |
• Source unknown |
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THOMAS Alva EDISON |
1847-1931; American inventor |
| 1 In my opinion, nothing is of greater importance to the success of the
motion picture interests than films of good moral tone. |
• Moving Picture World, 21 December 1907 |
| 2 The talking pictures are very crude as yet. It will take a year to perfect them
and my new invention. |
• Interview in the New York Tribune, September 1913 |
| 3 Americans require a restful quiet in the moving picture theater and for them
talking from the lips of the figures on the screen destroys the illusion. ...
The idea is not practical. The stage is the place for the spoken word. |
• May 1926 |
| 4 I don’t know what to say. This
is the first time I ever spoke into one of these things [a microphone]. ... Good night. |
• Speech at a National Electric Light Association dinner,
Atlantic City, 19 May 1926 |
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A S C EHRENBERG |
Professor, London Business School |
| Our wives have to watch television because we’re doing other things all
the time and can’t take them out to the opera. |
• May 1985 |
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A S C EHRENBERG and T P BARWISE |
Professors, London Business School |
| The revenue potential of
narrowcasting to specific minority groups is small: such groups watch general television
(like everybody else). For similar reasons there is virtually no scope for producing local
access and community programmes which people will actually watch. |
• Evidence to Hunt Committee, 1982
cf  Richard Dunn |
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ALBERT EINSTEIN |
1879-1955; German-born US physicist |
| 1 It was not the discovery of the atom but of the film that had the greatest
influence on mankind. |
• source unknown |
| 2 You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And
radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive
them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. |
• source unknown. Schrödinger's views on the subject are unknown. |
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DWIGHT David EISENHOWER |
1890-1969; US President 1953-1961 |
| I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their
living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. |
• Source unknown. Eisenhower gave the
first televised half-hour press conference |
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MICHAEL EISNER |
Michael Dammann Eisner
1942- ; President, Paramount Pictures (1976-1984);
Chairman/CEO, Walt Disney Company (1984- ) |
| 1 The video revolution, which
is really an evolution, has become a pre-occupation. ... Abandoning [movie theatres] for
the seductive world of videocassettes, pay TV or multi-channel cable is suicidal at this juncture. |
• Academy of Television Arts and Sciences luncheon, Hollywood, January 1981 |
| 2 A T S Eliot Waste Land of home-bound, high-tech zombies. |
• 1994 |
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T S ELIOT |
Thomas Stearns Eliot
1888-1965; poet, playwright, Nobel Laureate for literature 1948 |
| 1 The fears expressed by my American
friends were not such as could be allayed by the provision of only superior and harmless
programmes: they were concerned with the television habit, whatever the programme might be. |
• letter to The Times, 20 December 1950 |
| 2 It [television] is a medium of
entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same
time, and yet remain lonesome. |
• New York Post, 22 September 1963 |
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Sir FRED EMERY |
Manchester-based cinema circuit proprietor; Mayor of Salford 1932-33; MP for West Salford 1935-45 |
| If they got the same reception as they did at the cinemas, the situation would sort itself out. |
• backing his proposal to select loss-making films for release to television, c.1958 |
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EMPEDOCLES |
c.500-c.430 BC; Greek natural philosopher |
| Sight is produced by the fire inside the eye going forth to meet the object. |
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JULIUS EPSTEIN |
1909-2000; American screenwriter |
| We slammed on the brakes. We looked at each other and shouted at the same
time—I swear to you, at the very same time—'Round up the usual suspects!'. |
• Of the scene in Casablanca; cited in Epstein's obituary in The Times |
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HAROLD EVANS |
British-born journalist and editor (Northern Echo, The Sunday
Times, The Times) |
| The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth. |
• Source unknown |
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