For the Dutch company, see Telescreen (company). For the American band, see Telescreen (band).
See also: Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Telescreens are two-way video devices that appear in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Omnipresent and almost never turned off, they are an unavoidable source of propaganda and tools of surveillance.
The concept of the telescreen has been explored as a metaphor or allegory for the erosion of privacy in totalitarian regimes, as well as in the modern era in the context of Internet- and cellular-based devices that allow for the surreptitious collection of individuals' audiovisual data, frequently without their explicit consent or awareness.
Telescreens are two-way video devices that appear in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Omnipresent and almost never turned off...
story, Emmanuel Goldstein appears only in Minitrue propaganda films on a telescreen, while rumours claim that The Party wrote The Book. Emmanuel Goldstein...
Factor (UK). He is currently the lead vocalist of the pop rock band the Telescreen. Cocozza auditioned for and appeared on the eighth series of The X Factor...
as of some monstrous machine running without oil" that burst from the telescreen, meant to psychologically excite the crowd into an emotional frenzy of...
near a telescreen, Winston Smith was always mindful of that possibility: "If you made unexpected movements, they yelled at you from the telescreen." Such...
Using criminal psychology and omnipresent surveillance (via informers, telescreens, cameras, and microphones) the Thinkpol monitor the citizens of Oceania...
text Teledep — the Ministry of Truth's Telecommunications Department telescreen — a two-way television set with which the Party spies upon Oceania's population...
Benelux B.V. in association with Saban Entertainment and animated by Telescreen Japan. It was a co-production between Japan and the Netherlands based...
(2002) (Animation only) The Paz Show (2003–2006) with Discovery Kids, Telescreen, Egmont Imagination and Open Mind Productions Wide-Eye (2003) co-production...
ITV in the United Kingdom. The show was produced by Netherlands-based Telescreen BV, Denmark-based Egmont Imagination, King Rollo Films and Open Mind Productions...
scrutinised". In Radford's film the telescreens were bidirectional and in a world with an ever increasing number of telescreen devices the citizens of Oceania...
This could be achieved through technological breakthroughs, such as the telescreen, a two-way television that allows continuous government surveillance of...
1954 The Black Knight King Mark 1955 Richard III Tyrell 1956 1984 Man on Telescreen uncredited 1957 The Curse of Frankenstein Mortuary attendant uncredited...
Tells a Story Agnes Scott 1984 The Chain Alison 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four Telescreen Announcer Voice 1984 The Dress Julia Short Film 1985 The Doctor and the...