Synopsis
Film promoting television sets and the broadcast of New York’s first regularly scheduled programs. The short shows RCA’s production studios in Rockefeller Center, television demonstrations at the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair, RCA’s Empire State Building transmitter, and remote mobile broadcast units.
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- 8 minutes
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★★★ · Pre Network TV · Dodsworth the Cat · 2021-09-06
This film doesn't appear to have been copyrighted, so it's unclear when it was made, outside of the talk of ten years of TV experimentation by RCA. There's no reference of the war so it may be from 1940 at the latest. Supervisor Frank Donovan was a producer-director of RKO shorts in the 1940s, while Frederic Ullman, Jr. was president of Pathe News until 1944 when he became president of RKO Television Corp. The narration is by Andre Baruch. The short film talks about the World's Fair broadcasts inaugurating regular TV service. That began on April 30,1939. It's odd there are no call letters on…
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