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In the News (Thu 3 Dec 09)

  
  Telescreen
Bert Smets is happy with his choice for Telescreen: “the all round Telescreen knowledge with regard to animation productions and licensing forms the perfect combination with my own creative perspective.
Telescreen is internationally renown for its quality animation productions, successful partnerships and knowledge of licensing.
For more than 20 years Telescreen has been active as a producer, agent and distributor, and Telescreen is still expanding into new fields of media.
www.telescreen.nl /default.asp?id=83   (333 words)

  
 TeleScreen™
TeleScreen is the "Information Generation" of automated job applicant screening, employee satisfaction surveys (opinion surveys) and exit interviews.
TeleScreen works closely with companies to incorporate their "minimum criteria for employment", into the automated interview.
TeleScreen can e-mail the information (can be multiple e-mails), fax the information, export certain pieces of information to other systems within your company or a combination of the three.
www.tele-screen.com   (338 words)

  
 Telescreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Telescreens are featured in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Certain privileged members of the Inner Party, such as O'Brien, have the permission to turn their telescreens off, but even they seem to abide by an unwritten rule that the screens can only be off for a half-hour at a time.
Much of the telescreen programs are given in Newspeak.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Telescreen   (365 words)

  
 George Orwell. 1984
The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
The telescreen was giving forth an ear-splitting whistle which continued on the same note for thirty seconds.
Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations -- that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
sirdave.com /GeorgeOrwell_1984.htm   (21550 words)

  
 WowEssays.com - Nineteen Eighty Four
One of the most important word in the novel so far is telescreen, not only because it is a strange word, but this is the machine could compare to our super machine--computer, it is also the symbol of the bad luck to Winston and it could compare to the news in our society in 1999.
Telescreens are the major form of media communication in Oceania, and they desiminated 'news' to the populace.
In conclusion, telescreen is the most important word in the novel so far because of the comparison of the telescreen and the computer, the news from the telescreen and the news from the newspaper, and the bad luck for Winston.
www.wowessays.com /dbase/ac2/icr140.shtml   (580 words)

  
 Bye-Bye, Big Brother - George Orwell: The Chestnut Tree Cafe
In 1984, telescreens are bolted to every wall; they hang on every street corner and in every living room, even in the lavatories - and there is no way to shut them off.
The telescreen frees his senses and his voice, and thus frees his intellect and his conscious mind.
The telescreen gives a man the power to hear, see, and speak, to be heard and seen, in the company of his own choosing, wherever it may be found.
www.netcharles.com /orwell/ctc/docs/bybybb.htm   (1962 words)

  
 TeleScreen™ Reduces Employment Turnover Rates and Hiring Expenses for Businesses in the Hospitality, Restaurant ...
TeleScreen™ has provided an exciting concept in automated interviewing designed to provide employers with information on job applicants and current employees.
Using the TeleScreen™ system, the hospitality industry finds that pre-screening job applicants BEFORE the application process eliminates approximately one-third of all job applicants who do not meet the minimum job requirements defined by the employer.
TeleScreen™ is the oldest and most reliable company for providing pre-employment interviews, employee surveys, opinion surveys and employee exit interviews using touch tone telephone and computer technology.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/5/emw389162.htm   (730 words)

  
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There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.
Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
And then a voice from the telescreen was singing: Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.
artofhacking.com /IET/GUTENBRG/1984.txt   (22868 words)

  
 The Telescreen and Television
Most of the book is based on totalitarian ideas of the past like those of Stalin and Hitler, but the telescreen was an idea created that only time could test.
Probably the biggest difference between the television and the telescreen is that the latter transmits and receives images.
There is no reason for the party to monitor them with telescreens because they could never band together when they are all so focused on only themselves as individuals.
www.louisville.edu /~cljohn22   (1610 words)

  
 George Orwell: 1984 - Part III - Chapter 1
They yelled insults at the guards, fought back fiercely when their belongings were impounded, wrote obscene words on the floor, ate smuggled food which they produced from mysterious hiding-places in their clothes, and even shouted down the telescreen when it tried to restore order.
On the other hand some of them seemed to be on good terms with the guards, called them by nicknames, and tried to wheedle cigarettes through the spyhole in the door.
The pain of sitting on the narrow bench was such that often he got up and walked about, unreproved by the telescreen.
www.liferesearchuniversal.com /1984-19.html   (4246 words)

  
 Telescreen
Telescreen develops, produces, distributes and exploits high quality children and family oriented entertainment properties.
We identify properties that we believe to have the greatest potential in the marketplace.
With our knowledge in animation production, TV and video distribution and licensing, Telescreen is a successful and reliable business partner for international (co) producers, licensors, distributors, licencees and broadcasters.
www.telescreen.nl   (93 words)

  
 Telescreen by George Orwell from 1984 at Technovelgy.com
Telescreen by George Orwell from 1984 at Technovelgy.com
The premise of 1984 is the control of individuals and information in society by the state.
One tool is the Telescreen, an obligatory and dominant item in the homes of the inhabitants of London, capital city of Airstrip One (previously known as England).
www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=629   (514 words)

  
 M i n i t r u e . n l - big brother is watching you
The telescreen was not present in every house, only members of the Party had a telescreen.
Next to the two most important uses of the telescreen, surveillance and propaganda, we see that the screen is also used as a clock, for exercise purposes and even as a computer for office application.
All other music that comes out of the telescreens has a propagandistic undertone, this tune seems to refer to the end of the novel, when Winston is tortured and he betrays Julia.
www.minitrue.nl /essays/bigbrother   (4406 words)

  
 Company Information
With our knowledge in animation production, TV & video distribution and licensing, Telescreen is a successful and reliable business partner for international (co) producers, licensors, distributors, licensees and broadcasters.
Telescreen International Licensing manages and develops the licensing program of animated properties worldwide.
Through our local partners and by dealing directly with multinational licensees we aim for our characters to reach the top of their potential.
www.licensing.org /agents/company_info.cfm?coid=5318   (179 words)

  
 TeleScreen™
Departing employee exit interview questions pertain to their reasons for departure, opinion of the employer and supervisors, and the return of company merchandise or property.
TeleScreen's central station computer, which is interfaced with 800 toll free lines, conducts each interview and generates a report for each job applicant or employee within three minutes following the completion of the interview.
TeleScreen also mails a hard copy of the interview results the same day.
www.tele-screen.com /how.html   (275 words)

  
 Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thought Police have telescreens in every household and public area, as well as hidden microphones and spies in order to catch potential thought criminals who could endanger the sanctity of the Party.
Julia and Winston find their new hiding place a paradise, as there is no telescreen and so they believe themselves completely alone and safe.
Winston and Julia are eventually, and unavoidably apprehended by the Thought Police in their supposed sanctuary, which actually contains a hidden telescreen, and are then interrogated separately in the Ministry of Love, where opponents of the regime are tortured and executed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1984_(book)   (8232 words)

  
 Animation Magazine | Dutch Telescreen/PPM Nabs Egmont Imagination's Catalog
The day-to-day handling of the distribution and licensing rights is granted to PPM's fully owned subsidiary Telescreen BV.
Telescreen has been a strong animation player for the past 20 years, best known for its productions Miffy, Moomin and Alfred J. Kwak.
Tom van Waveren, formerly president of Egmont Imagination, is appointed as director of co-productions at Telescreen and will be responsible for the identification, development and financing of new high-potential properties.
www.animationmagazine.net /article.php?article_id=175   (241 words)

  
 Animation Magazine | Telescreen Bringing Fairytaler to MIPTV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
One of the world’s greatest storytellers is back in Hans Christian Andersen—The Fairytaler, a new animated series from Telescreen.
The company will be at MIPTV in Cannes this April drumming up business for the show, which employs 2D animation to illustrate 30 classic fairytales in 26 half-hour episodes.
Telescreen handles TV and home video distribution and merchandisingfor the show worldwide, excludig Nordic countries.
www.animationmagazine.net /article.php?article_id=5078   (190 words)

  
 O' Brien and his telescreen - Literature Network Forums
Winston had even gone over the possibility in his head that the invitation could be a trap but he thought it was worth the risk.
Winston and Julia should have probably tuned into the fact that Winston is able to turn off his telescreen.
Only inner party members can do that, but they were so willing to trust OBrien that they refused to believe what their eyes and ears were telling them.
www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?p=150874   (825 words)

  
 Lawrence Lessig
I was a little disappointed that the computer monitors weren’t the actual telescreens, though.
Here is how telescreens will be mandated in homes.
As soon as most people have availability of digital cable TV capable of supporting webcams via cable modems, parents of minor children will be routinely required to have webcams installed, ostensibly to “protect” their children from child abuse and/or domestic violence.
www.lessig.org /blog/archives/001709.shtml   (584 words)

  
 Mego Star Trek Telescreen Console   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Truly a unique piece in the Mego Star Trek line, part game, part playset the Telescreen console is unique unto itself.
It's design is very similiar to conputers that appeared on the Original series, one could almost imagine Captain Kirk blowing this up.
The telescreen console has one of the more attractive packages in the Mego trek line, something every somber about the fl background.
www.megomuseum.com /trek/base3.shtml   (126 words)

  
 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.
In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.
As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking-pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies -- more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity.
www.angelfire.com /wa2/wagenseil/alexandria/1984part1.htm   (22478 words)

  
 EVOLUTION OF THE ORWELLIAN TELESCREEN INTERACTIVE TV: THE MIDDLE YEARS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The transmission of this data is continuous and collective like the telescreen.
All the authorities need is time for the public to gradually accept them and the lure of convenience to spur the development of unconditional surveillance forward towards the telescreen.
Although the full employment of Orwell's telescreen is decades away, it is important for us to realize the potential and technology exist.
www.etherzone.com /2001/fath040401.shtml   (1237 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/winstonandthetelescreen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The band Winston and the Telescreen was formed and completed in 2004.
Winston and the Telescreen is made up of four members: Founder Trevor Monks- drums, Genius Paul Akers- keyboard, Rising star James Breker- bass, and Frontman David Tetz.
I for one support the movement to delete Winston and the Telescreen.
www.myspace.com /winstonandthetelescreen   (1033 words)

  
 The Telescreen
The telescreen is the key to everything else in 1984.
The word "telescreen" (or "screen") occurs 119 times in Orwell's book, which is to say, on almost every other page.
At the core of the new power held by phone and cable companies are tools delivering what is known as "deep packet inspection." With these tools, AT&T and others can readily know the packets of information you are receiving online -- from e-mail, to websites, to sharing of music, video and software downloads."
members.tripod.com /doggo/doggtelescreen.html   (395 words)

  
 Telescreen Takes on Hopla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
HILVERSUM, December 20: Telescreen has secured the international distribution rights to Hopla, a 3-D animated series of 5-minute episodes, targeted to young children, from creator Bert Smets.
Smets has already produced 104 episodes and more are in the pipeline.
The series has already spawned a line of books and games, and additional consumer products are in the works.
www.worldscreen.com /print.php?filename=tele1220   (109 words)

  
 David T. Wright -- AIMING BEER BOTTLES AT THE TELESCREEN
This coming from a man who has made a point of doing his best not to acknowledge the growing U.S. death toll, to hide the resulting bodies from the news media, and who refused, until quite recently, to meet with the families of the soldiers killed in his War on Terr.
My wife had to restrain me from throwing my beer bottle through the telescreen, and my hysterical screams made the lights come on next door.
The worst thing about this whole charade is that the issues mean nothing except for their usefulness as debate points, and the Ministry of Truth, also known as the News Media, plays it all as some kind of giant "reality" telescreen show.
www.thornwalker.com /ditch/dtw_debates01.htm   (3657 words)

  
 Telescreens (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Telescreens are devices that continuously broadcast propaganda from the government, but at the same time is a form of surveillance that is present in every person's home.
It can never be turned off, so potentially every citizen is always being watched.
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."
www.clarkson.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~buechelm/1984/telescreen.html   (101 words)

  
 The Telescreen
In George Orwell's book "1984," the apparently all-knowing “Big Brother” is constantly watching people though cameras and telescreens.
People lived in fear and ignorance, never questioning the higher powers.
This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
thetelescreen.blogspot.com   (1414 words)

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