Synopsis
Film showing the role of AT&T in facilitating network television transmission in the years before communications satellites. The live television broadcast of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty ballet is sent from New York City to Wisconsin via AT&T’s coaxial cable and microwave relay system. Note: Also released in 16mm. According to a report in Business Screen, excerpts from Stepping Along with Television were included in the first program sent by AT&T’s relay system in 1949.
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Details
- Running time
- 11 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- sponsored film
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Another Excellent Bell System Film · JayKay49 · 2022-03-21
Shows the coaxial and microwave methods that television networks transmitted their signals many 100's of miles from the origin. The microwave method needed some tweaking. I remember a temperature inversion in October 1968 temporarily blocked network TV to Buffalo, Erie, and Detroit, because the microwaves were bent by the atmospheric interface during that inversion. Those stations apparently were still dependent on wave transmission. Wonder if that was WTMJ channel 12, Milwaukee.
