Table of Contents Behind the Scenes and the Screen 5 The Magic of Science Or the Science of Magic 8 Television and Ducks That’s Right Ducks 16 Seeing from Far Away 22 It’s All an Illusion 28 Relax You’re Using Binary Numbers 36 Rate That Show 39 What Will They Think of Next 42 Glossary 46 Index 47 Show What You Know 47 Websites to Visit 47 About the Author 48
Behind the Scenes and the Screen This is a book about television But it’s not a book about watching television You already know how to do that It’s more about what you don’t watch on television What you don’t see In fact can’t see And maybe never even think about when you turn on your favorite show After all TV seems so simple There are hundreds of channels thousands of shows and we can watch what we want at the touch of a button However television is more complicated than it appears Just count the names in the credits at the end of a program You can see that behind the scenes television takes teamwork creativity hours of effort and something more STEAM Fast Fact Tele means far or far off in Greek and visio means seeing in Latin So television literally means seeing from a distance 5
