Although this article was written at a time when the television screen was only eight by eleven inches square, culture critic Gilbert Seldes addressed the question as to whether or not movies and radio will be voted off the island in favor of the television broadcasting industry:
“Whenever people ask me whether television will take the place of the movies, I blush, pant rapidly, stammer, and finally manage to ask them if whether they think the automobile will ever take the place of the horse. To which they reply (if they reply at all) that the motor car has already taken the place of the horse, which is exactly what I want them to say…the car has replaced the horse; but even that was a long and tedious process.”
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