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The first film made by RCA and the National Broadcasting Company for the press under practical working conditions, although previous demonstrations of laboratory television have been given. It represented the first showing of a complete program built for entertainment value as well as a demonstration of transmission.
- Family, Music
- 40
- 1936-11-06
- Eddie Albert, Robert Benchley, Grace Bradt
8 mag 2023 · NBC/RCA Experimental Television Demonstration for the Press. 1936. 40m. Family/Music. Cast. Eddie Albert (The Love Nest) Robert Benchley (Self) Grace Bradt (The Love Nest)...
NBC/RCA Experimental Television Demonstration for the Press (TV Movie 1936) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
On June 29, 1936, NBC began field-test television transmissions from W2XF/W2XK to an audience of some 75 receivers in the homes of high-level RCA staff, and a dozen or so sets in a closed circuit viewing room in 52nd-floor offices of the RCA Building.
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Television signals, like other forms of wireless electronic communication, are carried by radio waves. Radio wavesare a form of electromagnetic energy that travels through the air. The wavesexist i...In his speech, Sarnoff mentions the need to establish basic rules or guidelines for television transmission. He wants the Federal Communications Commission(the government agency responsible for reg...Several other countries—most notably Great Britainand Germany—developed television technology around the same time as the United States. In his speech, Sarnoff claims that American technology is su...Sarnoff also mentions that his goal is to establish a "television service to the public which will supplement and not supplant the present service of broadcasting." RCA was already a leader inradio...Following several more years of development and testing, RCA officially began offering television services to the public in 1939. Sarnoff marked this historic occasion with a speech called "The Birth of an Industry." He gave the speech on April 20, 1939, at the opening of the RCA pavilion (a large exhibit) at the New York World's Fair. World's Fair...
At the historic 1929 meeting between RCA head David Sarnoff and television engineer Vladimir Zworykin, Sarnoff asked the inventor what it would take to develop a marketable TV system. Zworykin repl...In 1936, the year that Sarnoff held his press conference, television equipment manufactured by RCA was used to broadcast the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Very few German citizens owned TV sets...In his 1936 statement to the press, Sarnoff boasted that RCA engineers were able to broadcast television signals over a distance of forty-five miles. By the time he died in 1971, satellite technolo...Imagine if television technology had never been perfected, and the American people still received their news and entertainment from radio broadcasts, newspapers, magazines, and telegraph messages....Visitors to the RCA pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair were amazed to see moving images reproduced on television. But their reactionseems amazing now, when television is an ordinary part of daily li...BOOKS
Bilby, Kenneth. The General: David Sarnoff and the Rise of the Communications Industry. New York: Harper and Row, 1986. Lewis, Thomas S. W. Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio. New York: Edward Burlingame Books, 1991.
PERIODICALS
Baird, Iain. "Television in the World of Tomorrow." Echoes, Winter 1997. "David Sarnoff of RCA Is Dead: Visionary Broadcast Pioneer." New York Times, December 13, 1971.
WEB SITES
"The Birth of an Industry." Museum of Television. http://www.mztv.com/birth.html (accessed on July 26, 2006). "The Birth of Live Entertainment and Music on Television." The Restelli Collection at History TV Net, http://framemaster.tripod.com/index5.html(accessed on July 26, 2006). "David Sarnoff." Museum of Broadcast Communications. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/S/htmlS/sarnoffdavi/sarnoffdavi.htm(accessed on July 26, 2006). Podrazik, Walter J. "TV's Debut at the 1939 World's Fair." 1939...
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