ABC's New York Studio set for the Pond's Theater | TV Guide Chicago, April 23-29 1955

There's more to television than meets the eye, and here's Constance Ford, star of the Pond's Theater version of "Anna Christie," to prove it. Merely to step across the threshold of a door leading from the deck of a barge to the cabin, she had to run 36 feet.

Let's see why. Beginning at right, she leaves James Daly (who played Matt, her seaman sweetheart) on deck and starts through the door. Actually, she does not enter but dashes over the course indicated by footprints, doffing her coat on the way. When a TV camera picks her up again, she's entering cabin, at left, to greet her father, played by Everett Sloane. The race was necessary because the two sets-the exterior and interior of the barge -were built separately, as the diagrams show.