The videomat

Any interested television fan can come take part in this public broadcast. A mobile studio with an automatic camera is available. He enters, presses a button, and delivers the message of this choice. He may want to buy, exchange or sell some object; find a long-lost friend or relative; find somebody to love or a marriage partner; or cry his love, his hate, his boredom, his despair or his desire to commit suicide. Only one thing is banned: advertising for commercial products. SIGNIFICANCE FOR INPUT: In the kind of “television confessional” represented by the VIDEOMAT, the participant is not intimidated by cumbersome technology or the interviewer’s questions. He is absorbed in his subject and is the master of it. His message comes across well. In a general way, the total effect of about 10 extremely varied messages in each program of the series makes VIDEOMAT a new, captivating, moving, droller and unusual program.