General Electric: Sightseeing At Home (1943)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Film promoting television at a time when the medium was still in limited use. It shows how television works and tours GE’s flagship station, WRGB, in Schenectady, New York.
WNBT TV ch.4 was the first TV station to broadcast regularly daily on July 1, 1941. Later became WNBC TV. In my old hometown of NYC.
WRGB started experimental broadcasts in 1928 and scheduled daily broadcasts of a few hours each day in 1939 (as W2XB). Commercial broadcasts started in 1942 as WRGB.
I worked there from 1985 through 1993.
What an interesting old video. Thank you for sharing.
I remember those little TV screens, they kept rolling vertically, and you had to keep adjusting the knobs to slow it down and try to stop it...didn't work well.
Surprisingly good audio!
so cool!!!
I enjoyed this 🙂
Superb ! Indeed the studio cameras date it to the 40s. Wonder how many of those models still exist ?
Probably as close as we can get to seeing WWII era television.
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is a 1978 book by Jerry Mander,[1] "who argues that many of the problems with television are inherent in the medium and technology itself, and thus cannot be reformed".[2]
Mander was an advertiser for 15 years, with five of them as a president and partner of Freeman, Mander, & Gossage, a San Francisco advertising agency.[3] wikipeda
WRGB {in Schnectady, New York} was one of the few TV stations on the air during World War II. Because of wartime conditions, there were very few television sets in operation. And programming on various channels was VERY limited [only a few hours a day on random evenings].
Manufacturing of TV sets and TV studio equipment was suspended during World War II.
Otherwise, television would have become a mass medium by 1943 or 1944 instead of 1948.
Narrated by Verne Smith.
WAS ANALOG BETTER?digital doesnt work all the time