Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-18
BY George Kennedy,

Adolph Schneider, the man who
will run the television pool on the
Inauguration, has arrived In Wash
ington and taken over.
Mr.. Schneider's job will be to
try to watch five television screens
recording events at the Capitol and
the White House and three points
along Pennsylvania avenue, to listen
to the accompanying sound effects
and then determine what will go
over the network delivering sight
and sound to an estimated 1000, 900
television receivers in the Metropol-
itan Areas of the East Coast and
the Middle West.
Mr.. Shcneider, dark, curly
haired former Omaha (Nebr)
newspaper man, is not nonplussed
by the idea, although he says the
job calls for a third ear and a
second or third set of eyes. He
worked on the television pool at
the Philadelphia conventions -four
cameras. This will be the biggest
job in the short history OF the in
FAINT induStry-15 cameras.
AS program co-ordinator, he will
be in front of row of five live
television images on the third floor
Of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. building, 723 Thirteenth
street NV. 1t will be his job to
keep the television show from lag
~i,o into q dI,ll moment
Tough Job for Deputy.
Like every general in command
of an allied effort, he wants to
credit his deputy as the man who
will do the most difficult work. That
will be William Garden, who also
will be watching the five screens
and listening to the sounds from
the five points. That will give Mr..
Schneider an occasional chance to
think about what is going to happen
next and what to do about it.
,Mr. Schneider was selected by
drawing lots at a meeting of repre-
sentatives of the four television net
works in November in New York.
He and his deputy are National
Broadcasting Co. television men. The
same method gave the chairman
ship of engineering to Rodney Chip
Of Dumont. Then it was decided
that Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn should handle the bookkeeping
on the pooled effort and that Amer
lean Broadcasting Co. should be
for trafic-for keeping
the stations informed of what is
coming and when.
Three television cameras will be
mounted at each strategic point. At
the Capitol, two of them will look
over the heads of the crowd at the
platform where the swearing in will
take place. A third will peek over
the shoulders of the Chief Justice
and the President from the rear to
get a closeup of the hand on the
Bible and at other times will look at
he crowd.
Running Account of Events.
Behind the cameras in the booth
above the crowd will be three
screens showing the production of
he three cameras. A producer will
watch those screens and the scene
n front Of him and determine |
which camera will send to central.
commentator-at the Capitol, it
Will be Ben Grauer-will be giving |
/ running account of events, except |
when the microphone is picking up
he Presidents speech or the micro
phones are catching the applause of
he crowd. Afterward Mr.. Gauer
will hasten to the telephone building
% take over the running comment
IN the parade.
The equipment and personnel at
the Capitol will be furnished by
NBC. A similar setup of three
cameras will be on top of the ESQ |
at Third street and Con-
,titution avenue NV. The equip !
nent and personnel mere will be
rom The Stars station, WMAL-TV.