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What the TV crowd lacks in glamour—an item for which the movies themselves have desperately fallen back on such a grotesque as Jayne Mansfield—it makes up in the kind of youth and vitality that once drove the movie studios. Where the oldtime film director sported puttees and riding crop, the TV director wears blue jeans and sneakers—and gets often impressive results under tight schedules and other pressures that frankly frighten veteran moviemakers. The best new creative talent that the movies can find comes from TV: such directors as Delbert (Marty) Mann, 37, John (The Young Strangers') Frankenheimer, 28, Robert (Fear Strikes Out) Mulligan, 30, such writers as Rod (Patterns) Serling, 32, Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose, 36, and Paddy (The Bachelor Party) Chayefsky, 34.
By contrast, the old Hollywood of the movie studios seems staled by age, caution and fear. Its moguls had a chance to move into TV in its infancy; now TV has grown too big for them to dominate. Some of the studios, struggling under heavy overhead costs, have thought of combining their activities, or selling off some of their plant. But ironically, the thing that keeps up their hopes for the future is also TV—the chance that the Government will approve pay-as-you-see TV. Says the Hollywood Reporter hopefully: "When this [happens], no studio will have half enough space for the number of pictures that will be produced to cash in on home exhibition."