movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Story of Television, The
- Year
- 1956
- Abstract
- RCA's corporate history of pre-1956 developments in television.
- Notes
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Produced: Ganz (William J.) Co.
Sponsor: Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Run Time: 14:50
Audio/Visual: Sd, b&w - Keyword
- Media;Television;Electronics;Television;Electronics
- Theme
- Television Broadcasting -- History
- Review
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The Story of Television
This film about the history of television was made by RCA in 1956, so it concentrates on the early stuff. The history presented here is history according to RCA, focusing on the technological advances that could be attributed to RCA and de-emphasizing everything else. A lot of tv "firsts" are shown: first president to be televised, first televised baseball game, etc. David Sarnoff talks with Vladimir Zworykin about television's early development at RCA (and sounds like he's reading from cue cards). The last third of the film suddenly breaks into color (though very poor color) and talks about the development of color television. The whole makes for an interesting combination industrial film and archive of early tv.
(Reviewer: Christine Hennig) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F