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himself. Likewise, TV acting is so extremely intimate, because
of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or
“closing” of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great
degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in
movie and lost on stage. For the audience participates in the
inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie
star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-
up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual
thing. And whereas a glossy photo the size of the TV screen
would show a dozen faces in adequate detail, a dozen faces on
the TV screen are only a blur.
The peculiar character of the TV image in its relation to
the actor causes such familiar reactions as our not being able
to recognize in real life a person whom we see every week on
TV. Not many of us are as alert as the kindergartner who said