“Ladies and gentlemen of the world, I have come to tell you about the mystery of television.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the world, I have come to tell you about the mystery of television. Television is a great big long arm of light that reaches clear into your front parlor, and even in the middle of the night when there ain’t no shows going on that light is on, though the studio is dark. Study this light. It will hurt you at first, and bombard your eyes with a hundred trillion electronic particles of itself, but after awhile you won’t mind it no more. Why?” he yelled way up loud and Slim said “Yes!” The man said, “Because while electricity was light to see by, this is the light comes not to see by, but to see—not to read by, but to read. This is the light that you feel. It is the first time in the world that light has been gathered up from the sources of light and shot through a tube in a way that it can be watched and studied instead of blinked at. And it has taken the shape of men and women who are real flesh and blood at the studio but come streaming into your parlor in light with all their sounds shot in sidetrack. What does this mean, ladies and gentlemen?”
