And as kids we were lucky if he just had to replace a tube. If after an hour with a screwdriver and flashlight removing testing and replacing tubes and John Cameron Swayze still looked like he was jumping rope, the repair man would say that the TV would have to go back to the shop for a few days and kids would go into conniption fits at the thought of missing Capt Kangaroo, Howdy Doody, or Dong Dong School for up to three whole days!
I was born during WWII. In 1949 my parents got one of the first TV sets in our New York City neighborhood . My wealthy grandmother bought a RCA 12 inch Model for my family for Xmas. It was a sturdy model with a hard wood cabinet and even a recordplayer located on the top. It also had a separate radio too. My Father told me in later years that it cost $400 in 1949 and a quick check on a recent inflation calculator told me that was equal to over $5,000 buying power in today's 2024 money. I remember friends and even neighbors of our family showing up on weekend nights just to watch TV in our living room. I lived in New York City at that time and I think there were only stations., ABC,CBS,and NBC. My fondest memory of that time was waking up early on Saturday morning and watching TV cartoons. At that time the broadcast even in NYC didn't start until about 7AM and went off the air around 10-11PM. After that there was a station identifier broadcast on the screen which was usually a photo of an Amerianc Indian , like that seen on a nickel coin . Early TV was primitve but it was also sensational for the era.
We had one like that in 1954 that weighed a ton. I really felt sorry for the repair man who had to get help to carry the whole set outside until he realized that he could slide the tv screen tube and the rest by merely unscrewing it from the wooden frame.
I was born in 1948 September 29, the same year and day that the first TV station went on the air in my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia and my family got their TV in 1952, at the age of four I already had my favorite programs knew what day they came on what time. So I can say I grew up with TV.
I lived through the transition from radio to television in the early 50's, and there was so much you could have done with that story. Unfortunately, this video is a disorganized hodgepodge of movie and advertising clips, and often do not fit in time wise. Why cover MTV, when it didn't arrive until the early 80's, for example. The first TV shows were just 15 minutes, and didn't come on the air until 4 pm. John Cameron Swaze's "Camel News Caravan" was the first 15 minute news TV show, and Milton Berle was the first comedian. You missed the essence of the history here.
I couldn't agree more. A lengthy description of the very early days of television broadcasting, from it's earliest inceptions into when people began to try to understand the exciting new medium... And then you suddenly plunge us decades ahead, telling us about MTV...! How jarring it must be for anyone trying to follow your narrative. I usually don't make personal comments to people on these UA-cam channels. But to put something out there like this tells me that you must be some kind of insensitive hack.
I'm 78 & my family had a t.v. from 1950 & totally agree that this video was disjointed! They should have researched it better! p.s. As a 4 year old, in 1950, I appeared on the "Buster Crabbe Show"! It was fun & I got to see early t.v., first hand!
I remember some convenient stores having a big unit you could bring in your tubes & test them right there, avoiding the cost of a repairman coming to your house. They always had a suitcase full of tubes. We only haf 3 channels & had to play with the antenna to get every one to come in clear. Also, the hum & channel symbol after it went off air. We had an old Philco set dam near the size of the fridge. The "Good 'ol days". 🙏❤😊
I remember going with my father to the drug store that had a selection tubes for TVs to get a replacement for one that had failed. We were the second family on our street to have a TV - a 12.5 inch - which was bigger than our neighbor's 10-inch console model. My mother wasn't happy with the expense!
Yes, a lot of these 'early broadcast' examples were a hodge-podge of old clips 'manufactured' for this video. The digital 'snow' effect was also a laugh. But we still appreciate the information shared, even for 'Vertical Bar Love Lucy' haha! 😁
The early mechanical TV lasted for only a few years, and I would say it was not real TV. When electronic TV sets and broadcasting arrived, it was real TV as we know it, the standard black-and-white TV that people were used to for half a century, until black-and-white TV sets lost popularity. In the US, the first TV station began in 1938 in NYC. The first decade of US TV is a curious time when the new medium spread slowly into dozens of cities and several states. Most of the familiar contnet and formets did evolve in those critical years.
I agree. Cable was available to those in areas where antennas did not receive. At least in the '60s but cable as most people think of it as "pay TV" arrived with HBO in the '70s.
@@jamesschwartz3837 Okay, Thanks, I understand now what you mean of Pay TV. I was curious as when I was a teen, in high school, my brother and a friend of his began the Ottawa Cable company here in Illinois. I assisted with running lines and installations.
A few video clips from early television circa 1949 1950 would have made this a better documentary. e.g. Texeco Star Theater AKA Milton Berle show, or Your Hit Parade . Just two of many possible example of TV shows of that era.
don't you proof read? vertical bar lucy is really i love lucy. you never saw the show? why spoil the historic research by such a mistake, now everything is in question. another cobbled together suspect click bait. just give up.
In the late 1940s, one neighbor was the first to have a TV, a 10 inch console. Us kids would hang around their door in the late afternoon until they put a sheet on the rug and let us in. Then we'd stare at the test pattern until Channel 4 (Boston) came on the air with Howdy Doody!
Yeah, Howdy Doody". I lived in NYC in the 1940-50's and was on the show once as a kid in the "Peanut Gallery". Clarabell the clown and Buffalo Bob were nice to us kids.
I just remember an early TV happening from the late 1940's. Living in New York City at the time my Mother became a fan of one of the first TV soap operas. It was a daily show but I think it only last 15 minutes each day. It was a live broadcast, very primitive and mostly consisted on women sitting around a kitchen table, drinking coffee, and gossiping about the neighbors. The early TV camera didn't allow for much movement on live TV shows . My housewife Mother loved it. .
I think you mean, "Twentith Century" ..I love that show and also "You are there"" It was informative and entertaining early TV show with topics about World history, hosted by Walter Cronkite. . For comedy, "Amos and Andy" with an all Black cast. I get nostaligic thinking of those early days of TV and the joy it brought me as a child.
I was expecting clips from the early shows, based on your title. ... Diana Rigg in 1973? Nothing to do with "early experiences"...... A few of the B/W clips seem to be old movies...... Thanks for your effort at least, and my getting to see Philo Farnsworth for the first time.....😁😁😁
A really nice collection of photos and generally good info - but the jumping back and forth chronologically at many points is confusing. I did give it a thumbs up though, as it is more accurate than others I have seen. One note: RCA 1939 is the inauguration of U.S TV service, but Britain had been first - on the air since 1935 (and soon to shut down due to war).
I remember seeing color TV for the first time as a teenager about 1960. It was the TV show Western, "Bonanza". The owner of the color TV had to get up after every commercial to readjust the colors to look normal. For some reason it would not hold the same colors once the commercial came back on. All TV's Used rabbit ears at that time and maybe the signal had a problem. I remember thinking that color TV had too many problems and consequently didn't own one myself until the early 1970's when it was much improved.
1. They had high cultural hopes in the beginning. Now it is primarily a zombie box. 2. I came a little later, remembering Elvis's TV debut on the Ed Sullivan show as a one year old. 3. I haven't owned a TV since 1973 (I bought them for other family members). Just think of all the high culture that I've missed! (sarcasm)
Geez. Sorry, but this was terribly disappointing. Lots of dialog that isn't saying much except the same ideas over and over again. Was this done by AI?
That was one of my favorite shows "Vertical Bar Love Lucy". Is AI always going to remain this stupid? If Artificial Intellence is going to rule the world it has a long way to go.
What a jumbled mess! This video skips wildly around both in its narrative and images between the truly early TV tech and production of the pre-war era and that of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Had you followed a proper chronology it would have been something like this; before about 1932-34 it was purely an experimental era. In addition to the Baird and Farnsworth systems there were other types in Japan and Germany. There were no commercial stations and all the productions that you showed were effectively done ins some sort of a controlled environment. The mid 1930s saw the first broadcast that we would recognize as that today. There were maybe a few dozen broadcasters in the world and only a few hundred sets sold (Germany was actually far ahead of the US at the t ime). Those little 5 inch screens were from that era. In today's money they would have cost about $5000 so hardly anyone had them. WWII put a halt to them and TV did not become a mass item until around the turn of the 1950s. It was only then that TV began to have a great impact on culture. You just kind of bounced around in a chaotic time warp up to MTV, back to Lucy & Desi, fast foward to cable, back to the proliferation of color TV--no sequence--no dates [BTW also skipped the development of video tape which was an important tec advance]
I'm 75 and I'll never forget the TV repair man. When our old " Hallicrafter " went out he showed up with a big tool box filled with vacuum tubes !
And as kids we were lucky if he just had to replace a tube. If after an hour with a screwdriver and flashlight removing testing and replacing tubes and John Cameron Swayze still looked like he was jumping rope, the repair man would say that the TV would have to go back to the shop for a few days and kids would go into conniption fits at the thought of missing Capt Kangaroo, Howdy Doody, or Dong Dong School for up to three whole days!
I was born during WWII. In 1949 my parents got one of the first TV sets in our New York City neighborhood . My wealthy grandmother bought a RCA 12 inch Model for my family for Xmas. It was a sturdy model with a hard wood cabinet and even a recordplayer located on the top. It also had a separate radio too. My Father told me in later years that it cost $400 in 1949 and a quick check on a recent inflation calculator told me that was equal to over $5,000 buying power in today's 2024 money. I remember friends and even neighbors of our family showing up on weekend nights just to watch TV in our living room. I lived in New York City at that time and I think there were only stations., ABC,CBS,and NBC. My fondest memory of that time was waking up early on Saturday morning and watching TV cartoons. At that time the broadcast even in NYC didn't start until about 7AM and went off the air around 10-11PM. After that there was a station identifier broadcast on the screen which was usually a photo of an Amerianc Indian , like that seen on a nickel coin . Early TV was primitve but it was also sensational for the era.
We had one like that in 1954 that weighed a ton. I really felt sorry for the repair man who had to get help to carry the whole set outside until he realized that he could slide the tv screen tube and the rest by merely unscrewing it from the wooden frame.
I remember the neighbors coming over to watch the first TV with a remote control.
Before that me and my sister were the remote ‼️
Ed Sullivan was big in early days of black and white TV , remembering Elvis 🎵
"Vertical Bar Love Lucy" and to think for all these years I have been saying I Love Lucy. 😆
This is ridiculous. Is it that much trouble to have an actual human being read the script?
I was born in 1948 September 29, the same year and day that the first TV station went on the air in my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia and my family got their TV in 1952, at the age of four I already had my favorite programs knew what day they came on what time. So I can say I grew up with TV.
Vertical bar think this video was very informative, and sometimes very comical!
Does anyone ever proof-listen to these audio tracks before posting them? Vertical Bar think someone must have been in an awful hurry. 😄
Too much AI in this video's audio track...or is that A vertical bar?
I still remember when the color TV came out. It’s took two to carry the color TV in our home.
It STILL takes two people to carry a new TV into the house. It's just that they're 86 inches now.
I lived through the transition from radio to television in the early 50's, and there was so much you could have done with that story. Unfortunately, this video is a disorganized hodgepodge of movie and advertising clips, and often do not fit in time wise. Why cover MTV, when it didn't arrive until the early 80's, for example. The first TV shows were just 15 minutes, and didn't come on the air until 4 pm. John Cameron Swaze's "Camel News Caravan" was the first 15 minute news TV show, and Milton Berle was the first comedian. You missed the essence of the history here.
I couldn't agree more. A lengthy description of the very early days of television broadcasting, from it's earliest inceptions into when people began to try to understand the exciting new medium...
And then you suddenly plunge us decades ahead, telling us about MTV...!
How jarring it must be for anyone trying to follow your narrative.
I usually don't make personal comments to people on these UA-cam channels. But to put something out there like this tells me that you must be some kind of insensitive hack.
I'm 78 & my family had a t.v. from 1950 & totally agree that this video was disjointed! They should have
researched it better! p.s. As a 4 year old, in 1950, I appeared on the "Buster Crabbe Show"! It was fun
& I got to see early t.v., first hand!
I remember some convenient stores having a big unit you could bring in your tubes & test them right there, avoiding the cost of a repairman coming to your house. They always had a suitcase full of tubes. We only haf 3 channels & had to play with the antenna to get every one to come in clear. Also, the hum & channel symbol after it went off air. We had an old Philco set dam near the size of the fridge. The "Good 'ol days". 🙏❤😊
I remember going with my father to the drug store that had a selection tubes for TVs to get a replacement for one that had failed. We were the second family on our street to have a TV - a 12.5 inch - which was bigger than our neighbor's 10-inch console model. My mother wasn't happy with the expense!
Yes, a lot of these 'early broadcast' examples were a hodge-podge of old clips 'manufactured' for this video. The digital 'snow' effect was also a laugh. But we still appreciate the information shared, even for 'Vertical Bar Love Lucy' haha! 😁
The early mechanical TV lasted for only a few years, and I would say it was not real TV. When electronic TV sets and broadcasting arrived, it was real TV as we know it, the standard black-and-white TV that people were used to for half a century, until black-and-white TV sets lost popularity. In the US, the first TV station began in 1938 in NYC. The first decade of US TV is a curious time when the new medium spread slowly into dozens of cities and several states. Most of the familiar contnet and formets did evolve in those critical years.
I remember trying to finish my homework so I could watch an old rerun of Vertical Bar Love Lucy.
Vertical bar remember watching that too! It was some time in the early 20-the-century as far as vertical bar recall! 😂
@@gary.h.turner Seriously, these AI voices are not very Intelligent.
Vertical bar love Lucy? How difficult is it to find a human to do voiceovers? I’d be happy to volunteer.
"Vertical Bar (I) Love Lucy...Come on' Man!!.
What is an explanation point?
"Vertical small baseball bat with dot at bottom???"
Really sorry for the Vertical bar 😂
We always watched "Vertical Bar Love Lucy"!
Cable TV was available in the mid 1960's, I was there and did installations....this report states 1970's
I agree. Cable was available to those in areas where antennas did not receive. At least in the '60s but cable as most people think of it as "pay TV" arrived with HBO in the '70s.
@@jamesschwartz3837 Okay, Thanks, I understand now what you mean of Pay TV. I was curious as when I was a teen, in high school, my brother and a friend of his began the Ottawa Cable company here in Illinois. I assisted with running lines and installations.
A few video clips from early television circa 1949 1950 would have made this a better documentary. e.g. Texeco Star Theater AKA Milton Berle show, or Your Hit Parade . Just two of many possible example of TV shows of that era.
don't you proof read? vertical bar lucy is really i love lucy. you never saw the show? why spoil the historic research by such a mistake, now everything is in question. another cobbled together suspect click bait. just give up.
The TV's from the 70s took up half the living room.
YIKES! We went from a Bulova Commercial to MTV in ONE TAKE! So much for the 50s, 60, and the 70s!
"Vertical bar Love Lucy" was a great show! Almost as good as "M Asterisk A Asterisk S Asterisk H."
In the late 1940s, one neighbor was the first to have a TV, a 10 inch console. Us kids would hang around their door in the late afternoon until they put a sheet on the rug and let us in. Then we'd stare at the test pattern until Channel 4 (Boston) came on the air with Howdy Doody!
Yeah, Howdy Doody". I lived in NYC in the 1940-50's and was on the show once as a kid in the "Peanut Gallery". Clarabell the clown and Buffalo Bob were nice to us kids.
I remember when we got our first tv. I was about 4 years old. The first show I saw was Hopalong Cassidy.
There used to be TV repair men that came to your house to check the tubes.
Yea,my brother was a t.v.repairman in the late 70's and '80's.Made a decent living
It would have been nice to hear about the history of cartoons on TV, like Scooby 'Horizontal Bar' Doo.
😂
Looney Tunes
Computer generated voice overs suck! "Vertical Bar Love Lucy"??????? REALLY!?
I remember when we had 3 channels like CBS NBC ABC
I remember channel 2 ktvu and channel 9 educational channel. Later coming..
It's what I grew up on in the 60s + public educational TV.
Vertical bar remember 4: CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS. Plus an oddball UHF station or two.
I just remember an early TV happening from the late 1940's. Living in New York City at the time my Mother became a fan of one of the first TV soap operas. It was a daily show but I think it only last 15 minutes each day. It was a live broadcast, very primitive and mostly consisted on women sitting around a kitchen table, drinking coffee, and gossiping about the neighbors. The early TV camera didn't allow for much movement on live TV shows . My housewife Mother loved it. .
"Twenty the Century?"
I think you mean, "Twentith Century" ..I love that show and also "You are there"" It was informative and entertaining early TV show with topics about World history, hosted by Walter Cronkite. . For comedy, "Amos and Andy" with an all Black cast. I get nostaligic thinking of those early days of TV and the joy it brought me as a child.
I was expecting clips from the early shows, based on your title. ... Diana Rigg in 1973? Nothing to do with "early experiences"...... A few of the B/W clips seem to be old movies...... Thanks for your effort at least, and my getting to see Philo Farnsworth for the first time.....😁😁😁
Farnsworth was on the series "I've Got A Secret" in 1957, so you can not only see him but hear him: ua-cam.com/video/pKM4MNrB25o/v-deo.html
Vertical Bars Love Lucy was one of my favourite shows.
The vertical bar holds up well today.
A really nice collection of photos and generally good info - but the jumping back and forth chronologically at many points is confusing. I did give it a thumbs up though, as it is more accurate than others I have seen.
One note: RCA 1939 is the inauguration of U.S TV service, but Britain had been first - on the air since 1935 (and soon to shut down due to war).
Life wouldn't be worth living without tv.
First it was pronounced buLOVA then a sentence later it was BULava.
I had to chuckle at the Superman screen - Always watched it as a kid but it was black & white! 🤣I never knew that's what it looked like in color!
It was the best time to learn about radio and TV waves...move the antenna to find the best receptions or trying tin foil wrapped around the antenna.
Early color TVS had a lot of upkeep , picture tube's having to be demagditized to keep the yellowish out of the picture.
I remember seeing color TV for the first time as a teenager about 1960. It was the TV show Western, "Bonanza". The owner of the color TV had to get up after every commercial to readjust the colors to look normal. For some reason it would not hold the same colors once the commercial came back on. All TV's Used rabbit ears at that time and maybe the signal had a problem. I remember thinking that color TV had too many problems and consequently didn't own one myself until the early 1970's when it was much improved.
What is vertical bar loves lucy at 10:08?
AI not being able to adjust
1. They had high cultural hopes in the beginning. Now it is primarily a zombie box.
2. I came a little later, remembering Elvis's TV debut on the Ed Sullivan show as a one year old.
3. I haven't owned a TV since 1973 (I bought them for other family members). Just think of all the high culture that I've missed! (sarcasm)
After the 80s TV started becoming incredibly stupid.
I won't look at it now unless it's a documentary or something worthwhile.
Lots of AI in this one...
Good God,you go from 1941 to 1981 in ten seconds? 🙄🙄This is what happens when millennials attempt historical documentaries. I’ll pass kid!
Vertical Bar Love Lucy was one of the best TV shows of the 20 the century!😂
Geez. Sorry, but this was terribly disappointing. Lots of dialog that isn't saying much except the same ideas over and over again. Was this done by AI?
I heard that the first MTV video was "I Wanna be a Lifeguard" by Blotto.
Memories ❤❤😊😊
In 1930s was television Am signal or VHF if it was am how could a old set working be demastrated
More AI nonsense or should I say Avertical bar?
That was one of my favorite shows "Vertical Bar Love Lucy". Is AI always going to remain this stupid? If Artificial Intellence is going to rule the world it has a long way to go.
This is full of distortions, falsehoods and general historical inaccuracies.
This narrator NEVER saw any of these shows! He is a typical millennial.
You have a bot talking there.
What a jumbled mess! This video skips wildly around both in its narrative and images between the truly early TV tech and production of the pre-war era and that of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Had you followed a proper chronology it would have been something like this; before about 1932-34 it was purely an experimental era. In addition to the Baird and Farnsworth systems there were other types in Japan and Germany. There were no commercial stations and all the productions that you showed were effectively done ins some sort of a controlled environment. The mid 1930s saw the first broadcast that we would recognize as that today. There were maybe a few dozen broadcasters in the world and only a few hundred sets sold (Germany was actually far ahead of the US at the t ime). Those little 5 inch screens were from that era. In today's money they would have cost about $5000 so hardly anyone had them. WWII put a halt to them and TV did not become a mass item until around the turn of the 1950s. It was only then that TV began to have a great impact on culture. You just kind of bounced around in a chaotic time warp up to MTV, back to Lucy & Desi, fast foward to cable, back to the proliferation of color TV--no sequence--no dates [BTW also skipped the development of video tape which was an important tec advance]
Our 1956. Zenith wa a monster and in 1960s dad wood take tubes oit to peo boys checcker and replace bad ones for 99. Cents
Armstrong TV..
"Vertical Bar Love Lucy"???? Was this narrated by an AI voice? Embarrassing.
I hate this kind of stuff. Somebody else rips PBS off for the video adds their narrative and calls it their own. What b*******