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plicazione rigida, banale e piut- di prima serata, si trova di fronte
tosto bigotta di quella stagione. il titolo di un film, un meraviglio- JANUARY 3, 1954: ITALIAN
Ci sono le censure moralistiche so western, L’amante indiana. Ma TELEVISION IS BORN
all’abbigliamento delle ballerine la parola amante, che nel lessico
e quelle politiche ai testi di Dario dell’epoca rimanda a rapporti ex- t would be nice if on 3 January each
Fo in Canzonissima; c’è il colmo di traconiugali, non si addice a quel- Iyear it became one of those many days
questa ossessione censoria nella la Rai e viene lì per lì trasformata dedicated to something. Three January:
the day of television, or rather of public
scelta di un’annunciatrice che, ridicolmente in un’improbabile television in which we remember how
dovendo presentare il palinsesto “moglie indiana”, peraltro imme- TV, as well as an industry capable of
producing profit and employment,
is considered a means not only of
technological development but also of
progress of an entire society: economic,
civil, cultural. On January 3, 1954,
from the studios of Turin, Rai began
its regular television programming,
marking the beginning of a new phase
in national history. In that historical
period, which is commonly referred
to as ‘reconstruction’, the advent of
TV gives the process of social rebirth
a particular form. We can not say that
it is the final stage, given that the so-
called boom came several years later.
But the presence of television inserts a
new fundamental character in the path
RAI sigla inizio trasmissioni of reconstruction: modernity. Here’s
what we should celebrate every three
of January: the symbolic entry of our
country into modernity. Certainly
it may seem paradoxical to identify
modernity with a period that, in relation
to television, has left us countless
anecdotes based on moralistic censures
such as those on dancers’ clothing and
political ones on the texts of Dario Fo in
Canzonissima; there is the absurdity of
this censorship obsession in the choice
of an announcer who, having to present
the prime time program schedule, is

Telescuola è stato un programma televisivo sperimentale della RAI, realizzato nel 1958
con il sostegno del Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione

Paolo Panelli, Delia Scala e Nino Manfredi
nell’edizione di Canzonissima del 1959

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