I am glad to see that the suggestion made by
Mr. Alfred Bossom, M.P., in last week's Spectator regarding the film- ing of great national events like the recent royal wedding, or the royal opening of Parliament, is being taken up in various quarters. If the wedding ceremony in West- minster Abbey could be broadcast, and still photographs could be taken of it, it is hard to see any good reason for prohibiting the taking of the moving pictures which all the Empire was anxious to see—and all posterity might demand the right to see, too. The noise of the cameras would be a valid objection if cameras were necessarily noisy. But that difficulty, I believe, has now been over- come. No doubt when television has been carried a little further great ceremonies will be seen as well as heard while they are actually in progress. That will settle the whole question once for all.
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