The History Of Television

Broadcast in the 1950’s by RCA, we take a close look of the very early days of television, what people of the time thought of the …

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  1. Why did they stop during the war? They could have carried on with some sports and plays etc. They could have controlled it so nothing was given away to the enemies of America.

  2. I'm amused that the documentary tells us television was "officially publicly debuted" in 1939 in New York, when the Germans had beat them to it in '35. Somehow RCA conveniently left that out. 😀

    And of course no mention of Boris Rosing at all, the first person to — fully electrically — take an image collected by a camera and display it onto a picture tube, circa 1902. Those were the very early days of television!

  3. This was produced in 1956, when RCA/NBC offered a limited amount of color programming. Less than a dozen shows were regularly telecast in color on NBC's schedule, and some very expensive color "spectaculars". In contrast, CBS telecast only a few programs in color because of their intense rivalry with RCA/NBC [they finally ceased regular color telecasts {with a few exceptions, including the yearly presentation of "The Wizard of Oz"} from 1960 through 1965. ABC was too cash strapped- and couldn't afford the technology for color transmissions until September 1962 [and even then, on a VERY limited basis until 1965].

  4. Here, take this cyclotron/electron gun in a box, aim it at your head, and then stare into for hours and hours of television programming. Perhaps you'd better see "A Clockwork Orange" again.
    The Black Magick Mirror Machine was a weapon from its beginnings.

  5. Terrestrial television should always be introduced as early as 1921, cable television as early as 1922, satellite television as early as 1923, pay-per-view television as early as 1924, pay also known as premium also known as subscription television as early as 1925, widescreen television as early as 1926, open matte television as early as 1927, high-definition television as early as 1934, ultra high-definition television as early as 1935, 2D television as early as 1936, 3D television as early as 1937, digital terrestrial television as early as 1990 and digital cable television as early as 1992 from as to most.

  6. It's interesting how, depending on the national origins of the documentary, you will get different names of inventors and dates of it first being demonstrated in public. As a Brit, I was always told a Scotsman, JL Baird had invented TV, but in Germany it is probably Nipkow or whoever, and in America it is whoever paid for or produced the documentary.

  7. Imagine how it must have been to actually come up with something to broadcast that had to air BUT with the HIGHEST rating system EVER! I'm talking it better be suitable for Jesus himself to watch!

  8. You are telling wrong brother, you are hurting religious sentiments of HINDU because
    In India's gossip story "Mahabharata", Sanjay had invented color television infinite years ago.😂😂😂
    Foreigners have copied from Mahabharata's television theory….🤣🤣🤣

  9. Television and the Internet and any form of communication is a honey trap . By doing so they control the masses . The technological communication offers you supposedly the illusion of connecting to the world but detaches you from yourself . The TV and the Internet is a counterinsurgency measure. Don't google it

  10. Analog icons: They looked like eyeballs with a projection instrument and a cord. All this time we were in possession of televisions, we were in possession of corded eyeballs and at the TV store, there'd be a group of eyes facing the window for the whole group of customers to watch. They were looking at giant eyeballs so therefore they were looking at the entertainment of their own eyes.

  11. 4:10 nearly 30 years ago from this film they had the first working tv. if you look at where the internet is at today in 2023 and go 30 years back, the public internet was in its infancy there wasnt really web browsers yet. Netscape navigator came out in 1994 so its almost like we are at the point in the internet where this film is set in the timeline of television.

  12. Striking video also for its almost total absence of women. We forget just how bad it was when everyone was sorted and pigeon-holed at birth according to what eh doctor said was the sex. Branded for life! Whether female or male, you had to fulfill that role. Of course men's roles were many and varied,: they were just pigeon-holed into a bigger- much bigger – hole. Thank goodness for all the advances for all people. It's still bad out there – we all know it – but come on – look at this video! We're certainly better off for the liberation of women, people of color, and all others that don't want to be told who they are and what they can do.

  13. Story TV has been great to view, especially when they who produce this series are not bias against color of skin nor different parts of humanity that are not living within the sovernity grounds of the United States of North America. This proves the understand what predjudice nature of those that government rule, might have cause hardship of oppressed and poor.

  14. RCA electronics’ scientists and engineers made important contributions to the development of radar, sonar for submarine detection, the sniper scope that made it possible to see a target in darkness. Thus the progress of perhaps the peacetime decade was compressed into four short years. 1945: The war over. After four years of unparalleled war effort, denial, sacrifice, the American public hungry for the rewards of peace; and television with its promise of endless hours of enjoyment, entertainment was part of the peacetime dream . . . the road was long, difficult, but it led to one of the historic inventions of our times, the RCA tricolor television tube, the tube with the heart of a rainbow.

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