Synopsis
Television manufacturing at RCA's New Jersey plant. Includes scenes of design, engineering and quality control.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1959-01-01
- Running time
- 17 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- reasons_why_2
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · EXCEPTIONAL piece of history · nrgenova · 2012-08-23
This video (with Part 1) are a great video transcription of a classic RCA sales film. The color is much better than many 16mm films of the era. If you are a fan of (or just interested in TV or RCA history) you will enjoy the two parts of this video. If you doubt the the veracity of the "quality" of RCA TV's of the era, I can attest they are as presented in the film. I have a 1954 RCA TV that our family purchased new and it still works really well for a 58 year old analog TV. It has had service over the years but still works amazingly well. It was such a great find to see how RCA made these…
★★★ · Geek Power rules! · Spuzz · 2004-04-21
After a rousing beginning, with a "____ is connected to the _____ " song variation, the film then gets down to business, and tells us how each and every beautiful RCA television is designed and built. A little more then a follow the assembly line film, what I found hilarious about this film was RCA's insistence of hiring EVERY LIVING NERD POSSIBLE. I mean, counting all the bow ties, glasses and ducktails forever. Other then that, as I said, it's the power of the assembly line (oh and test after quality test). Great color too.
★★★ · An Inordinately Large Number Of Redheads... · JayKay49 · 2014-05-07
working in those plants, and the one in the final scene walking up to the desk is a real doll! Given the complexity of those sets and so much of it "handmade" it's easy to see why so many layers of quality control were required. This is pre-robotics. It happened that in that period RCA was just beginning to develop its reputation as the most overall reliable set, and also on the expensive side as well. Not bad, not anything real special, no camp, but certainly complete in detail.