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cannot continue to exist.” What Mr. Burr omitted to observe
was that the Perry Mason TV program, in which he plays the
lead, is typical of that intensely participational kind of TV
experience that has altered our relation to the laws and the
courts.
The mode of the TV image has nothing in common with
film or photo, except that it offers also a nonverbal gestalt or
posture of forms. With TV, the viewer is the screen. He is
bombarded with light impulses that James Joyce called the
“Charge of the Light Brigade” that imbues his “soulskin with
subconscious inklings.” The TV image is visually low in data.
The TV image is not a still shot. It is not photo in any sense,
but a ceaselessly forming contour of things limned by the
scanning-finger. The resulting plastic contour appears by light
through , not light on , and the image so formed has the quality