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1938: Early Television Makeup
Here are two very interesting articles with great pictures to show what it took to…
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1938: Hand-Held Mini TV!
Again, it's amazing how so many 'new' ideas are so old!
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1938: Where Is Television Now?
Engineering types will love this great discussion on transmission techniques. Coaxial, long wave and more…
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1939: New York TV Set Receives London Signal
When I first saw this, I was very curious how this could possibly happen with…
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1939: Exploding the Television Boom
Wow! This nine-page article from Mechanix Illustrated is full of pictures, but the story is…
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1940: Second Philo T. Farnsworth Interview
This four-page interview found Philo at age 33 and comes four years after his first…
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1946: Mechanical Color Wheels or Electronic Color?
The question of the day: the choice between the CBS color wheel (sequential field system)…
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1947 Color TV Outlook
This is one of the first articles I've seen that starts to move the thought…
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1949: What Every Family Wants To Know About TV
This is about as good as it gets! These 11 pages from the January 1949…
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1952: TV Goes to the Conventions
Popular Mechanics shows in detail how one of the 1952 political conventions would be televised…
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1954: Behind the Split Screens of TV
Great article on how the first coast-to-coast, split-screen telecast of the 1954 Oscar ceremony was…
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1955: The DuMont Electronicam
A one-page article on the DuMont Electronicam and its use on Jackie Gleason's classic program…
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1955: Ernie Kovacs’ Special Effects
Here is a 1955 article on some of the special effects Ernie Kovacs used on…
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1957 Projection Screen TV
The more of this old stuff we see, the more the new ideas seem "not…
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1964: Watch Your Favorite Show ANY Time!
This short article in Popular Science is about the early home video tape offerings. It's…
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April 30, 1938…Historic CBS Columbia Square Studios Dedicated
Here are some interesting images, and articles from the day, I think you will appreciate.…
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April 30, 1952…TV’s First Toy Commercial, And Other TV Ad Firsts
April 30, 1952...TV's First Toy Commercial, And Other TV Ad Firsts On this day, in…
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April 29, 1961…ABC’s “Wide World Of Sports” Debuts
April 29, 1961...ABC's "Wide World Of Sports" Debuts This video is from the last episode…
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Just For Fun, And Lots Of It! Johnny Caron’s 25th Anniversary Show
Just For Fun, And Lots Of It! Johnny Caron's 25th Anniversary Show The opening billboard…
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