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Ernie Was A Visionary, Not A Writer,
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This review is from: Zoomar (Mass Market Paperback)
Ernie Kovacs was the guy who said televsion (50s style) was called a medium because it was neither rare nor well done. He instsed on looking at things his own way, and using TV's technology in ways no one else would even imagine.Today, whenever a business seminar leader trots out the well-worn cliche "thinking outside the box," Ernie's face comes before me. And music was innate. So much of Ernie's TV tech stuff was 100% visual, it was tantamount to viewing a series of silent films. And we remember that silent movies had musical accompaniment. Ernie had to furnish music which would at once associate itself with the ruthlessly original visual imagery and also be, hopefully, something we'd not heard before. He scoured the globe for 1950s-era music that you'd never heard before. For example, even fifty years later, I cannot hear the version of "Jalousie" on this CD without seeing the "office equipment" visuals he made. And I'd be grateful for a plateful of fish. Ernie's outlook on things has warped me for life. I read this book when I was a kid, and thought, if television is really like that, I don't know if I want to work in it. And I never did...until I was on IIT/V in the 1970s. But that's another story.
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