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Story of Television Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221281-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1956

Country: USA

Location: New Jersey,New York City,NYC,Princeton

TC Begins: 13:05:03

TC Ends: 13:15:48

Duration: 00:10:45

Story of Television (missing head) Pt. 1 of 2 RCA Zwarkin’s early iconoscope tube; orthocon tube; early tv tube & electronic kinescope. Diagram of orthocon tube in video camera & operation recording by scanning image w/ electrons. Animated diagram of signals fed to transmitter, then to antenna & down to television set. 13:07:10 Reversal process on reassembling picture on television tube. 13:07:44 1931 NBC transmitter room of W2XBS w/ racks, engineers & picture of 60 scanning lines original picture. 13:08:19 Street scene outside NBC Rockefeller Center w/ pedestrians, cars & mobile van. Two RCA mobile vans arriving at stadium or ?? Men setting up large camera, three engineers in van at controls. 13:08:58 1939 World’s Fair w/ flags, sphere & RCA Exhibit Building & logo w/ David Sarnoff on 29Apr39 picture at microphones. Family in home watching World’s Fair. Cameraman. 13:09:39 Film (not television) of FDR at World’s Fair, King & Queen of England touring pavilion & in front of crowds. Baseball, 1940 political conventions. 13:10:28 Studio w/ chorus girls rehearsing w/ technicians, boom microphone, large lights. 13:10:56 Spinning newspaper w/ WWII breaking out w/ Japan. 13:11:06 Still of Research Center during war. Billboard: Radio Corporation of America, David Sarnoff Research Center, RCA Laboratories Division. Engineers in lab at workbenches; looking at giant tubes, instruments. Radar antennas turning & w/ soldiers on desert; sonar instruments; sniperscope to see target in darkness. 13:12:06 Spinning newspaper w/ New York Times War Ended headline. Zipper banner sign on Times Square of Japanese Surrender & packed crowd seen from above. 13:12:23 Spinning Herald Tribune newspaper w/ Tokyo agrees to surrender terms. Assembly line of television tubes, women assembling, heating glass, putting on conveyor. 13:13:11 NBC studio w/ orchestra, control room, engineers, cameras & cameramen. Moving camera dollying. Swearing in President Truman in 1949 shown on 16 NBC stations, shown on map. 1955 expansion to coast to coast. Assembly line w/ sets manufactured (GOOD). Packing in large crates. Trucks w/ ladders in parking lot, for installation, antennas on housing developments. Tilt up large antenna. Tilt up microwave Continued... Industry; Manufacturing; 1950s; Advertising; Promotion; Educational Film; Information Film;

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