"Please tell me all about the Czech comedy series of the eighties
'Rozpaky Kuchare Svatupluka' - (The Dilemma of Cook Svatopluk)- how
it was made and how the interractive plot and voting system worked."
Hello uncle
The entry from Czech equivalent of the
Internet Movie DataBase , gives date, director, actors..
for this series. Here is a translation of a portion of that:
It was a TV series, 11 episodes
70 min each
Director : F. Filip, (1985)
....
Comments say series was 'above average' for that period
(time of totality which was 1948-1989),
that it was first attempt at interactive TV and the voting was
the only really interesting part. Voting was done by turning on the
light at that exact moment of decision. It was possible to read the
spike in the electricity consumption. The comment explains (for the
younger set) that this was 'before SMS were available'. It also says
that it was interesting just to look at the windows in the hi-rise
housing development, when many lighted up.
http://www.csfd.cz/film.php?111284
What was the moment of decision?
For example: "Should the cook enter heroin's room in the evening?
Is she indeed falling for him - or is he just kidding himself?"
Of [eripheral interest perhaps is that in the main role
was performed by Dagmar Veskernova, who later become second wife of
president Havel.
Even though it is the first TV experiment with 'remote voting' in
Czechia,
it should be mentioned that 'Laterna Magica' with an important
interactive
element was a hit of Brussels World Trade Fair in 1958. It was an
inovative
Czech performance which modified the plot based on the audience
vote.
Prague to this day has a theater by this name, mostly catering to
tourists, playing either English and/or non-verbal audio-video
experimental performances.
http://www.travelcook.com/English/country/prague_theater.asp
Here is short history of Czech experimentation with interactive
plays, which is going back to 1920:
http://www.zkm.de/futurecinema/havranek_werk_e.html
Search Terms
Series title in the Czech search engine:
http://www.atlas.cz/search/Default.asp?q=rozpaky+kucha%F8e+svatopluka&t=a&ex=&f=0
Laterna Magica
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