- Always loved those monologues. Landmark TV. One of the things which encouraged me to do solo story- Archived Message
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on April 30, 2020, 7:23 pm, in reply to "I'd have been 14 then, a budding history man"
| telling shows in the '70s and '80s. AJ demonstrated how - with no scenery, a single half-hour-long, ultra-slow zoom shot, and no other director's tricks at all, fascinated audience attention could still be rivetted in place for the whole length of the show. A kind of TV extension of the idea encapsulated by the famous story of the boy who preferred radio plays to TV plays "because the scenery is better!" AJ generates vivid images, just by mouth... |