Archives for May 24, 2017

A scene from a TV version of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, originally telecast live by CBS on October 21, 1954 as an episode of Climax!. James Bond is played by Barry Nelson and Le Chiffre is played by Peter Lorre. This was the first screen version of any of Fleming’s novels. The teleplay was written by Charles Bennett and Anthony Ellis, the program was directed by William H. Brown, Jr., and the score is by Jerry Goldsmith:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“I can’t believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can’t imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.”

Milton Babbitt (quoted in Glenn Gould, “The Prospects of Recording”)