Story of Television (1956)
1956 · Ephemeral film · 25 min
- Documentary
Synopsis
Shows efforts of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in the creation, development and introduction of the all-electronic TV system; explains how science made television a working reality.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Studio
- RCA, William J. Ganz Company, Inc.
- Released
- 1956-01-01
- Running time
- 25 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Cast & crew
- David Sarnoff
- Vladimir K. Zworykin
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · (Until 1956 that is) · Spuzz · 2005-06-25
Not bad doc about the many advances television had gone through to 1956. Although padded somewhat at the beginning with a history of how man wanted to see "beyond the valleys" the film gets back on course by telling the many wonders television pioneers, more specifically, RCA, has done. We get to see a very badly done "conversation" between two of them. What could have been an interesting talk just looks like two old men reading from cue cards (and that's what it is). The historical aspect of tv is shown from it's mainstream introduction at the world's fair to them bringing tv on the road…