With the 1953 autumn television season getting into gear, Studio One (CBS-TV) came up with one of the most ambitious TV project. This was an adaptation of George Orwell's 1984,a novel about a totalitarian state where everybody's thoughts and actions are spied on, where history is altered to correspond with the rulers' dictates, where all that matters is a godlike ruller called Big Brother. Technically forbidding, the play took four months to repare, but with good acting, imaginative lighting and simple sets the producers helped drive home much of Orwell's terrifying warning that any control of a nation's thought inevitably brings decay of the human mind and spirit. A brave and stimulating effort, TV's 1984 was good enough to inspire the hope that it will be repeated soon.
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