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!
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'm 68. For us,if Dad couldn't test and replace a tube at the drugstore,we called Sears(all of our appliances were Sears due to my older brother 's 10 percent employees discount). Mr Abbott was the requested repairman and he would fix everything. I tell younger people that we had a remote control(I was it),had to get up and change the channel if the adults wanted it. I remember our first color TV and the first UHF broadcast in our area.
@@billgrandone3552 You forgot to mention the famous mice 🐭🐭. Mickey and his sister Minnie Mouse and Disneys Mouseketeer’s . If you never joined the Mickey Mouse club it’s still not too late . It’s free just turn on the TV and grab your Mouskateer- ears .
My mother, born in Surrey, England in 1918 told me that she first regularly.watched tv in the late 1930's. An old lady neighbour who was obviously quite wealthy and friends with my mother had bought a tv set to watch the regular BBC tv service that began in 1936. My mother often popped round to watch with her. In 1938 the BBC televised the FA Cup Final for the first time and the old lady invited as many children, and a few adults too, as she could fit into her living room to watch the match live from Wembley Stadium .
@@billjackson1317 Our earliest remote only had 2 functions. On/off and changing channels. Not even volume control. Of course this was before cable so changing a channel the TV would actually scroll until it picked up a signal. That annoyed me because being quite young I didn't mind watching very fuzzy UHF but the remote would always scroll past it. I assume I could tune it manually but I really don't remember. This was in the late '6Os.
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.
My dad born in 44 remembers the first tiny B&W TV his dad got, very excited to watch the lone Ranger, they lived in Atlanta Ga also. AS a kid in the 70s with only one color TV and only 5 channels most fuzzy. but all the shows were good. No remotes till the neighbors got one in 78.
Born in 1949 Pittsburgh we had Westinghouse KDKA Tv.And radio so they built all their own stuff including sets studios and network. They produced some content but aligned with CBS competing with RCAs NBC.plus we got early PBS.WQED.
My parents bought their first tv in 1949. I was 4 years old. There were only a few stations and only a few hours a day when you could watch. I remember watching Ding Dong School", "Howdy Doody, "The Lone Ranger" "Hopalong Cassidy", "I Love Lucy", "My Little Margie", "Mama", "The Life Of Riley", "Captain Video", and my mom would watch "Coke Time," a fifteen minute show starring a young up and coming singer named Eddie Fisher. I remember the Indian head graphic used so you could adjust your tv. It was all so exciting and new.
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.
The Indian image was a test pattern used by many stations. It tested picture resolution: the quality was judged by the visibility of the filaments in his feathers.
Me too, in Brooklyn. First one we had in 1950, was an Admiral consloe. Big piece of furniture, 12 inch screen upper left, complicated all band radio lower right, and record changer, upper right. Staions were CBS on 2, NBC on 4, Dumont on 5, ABC on 7, WOR on 9, WPIX (go Yankees) on 11 , not sure of call letters on 13, WNET? All signed off by midnight. Watched old westerns during afternoon.
@@len9518 Thanks for the memories. My memory from over 70 years didn't recall the fact of more than three channels. But your comment triggered a new memory about those extra ones. Thanks for your comment.
@@len9518 Oh Len , tell me that you didn't live in a walk up. I remember our Admiral combo TV AM-FM radio, and phonograph and how three guys almost dropped it going up three stairs to our porch after carrying it from the street to our lawn and house; I can't imagine hauling ine of those monsters up to a three story apartment building with narrow stairs.
Ed Sullivan and the Jackie Gleason shows were, in my opinion TV versions of the old Vaudeville shows with the racy parts removed. Also it is my opinion that the Muppet Show was a "better" version of the Ed Sullivan show.
My dad born in 1944 says he remembers his dad buying the first tiny B&W TV in the 50's , they all watched the lone Ranger. They thought it was really exciting.
My friend Parents got 1 in 64. I wanna go to their house and watch Disney World color on NBC with the peacock. People forget there's Barely. Any? shows on TV that were in color.
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! 😁
We used to do that tube check at the local Pharmacy called Katz and Besthoff (K&B). They had a Sit Down Soda Fountain and the best Cream Cheese Ice Cream too.
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!
My father went deaf as a young teenager. This was just about the time "Talkies" started. He never went to the movies, He used a hearing aid but in those days they had their limits. In 1949 my father was working for a man who owned a radio store, and just started selling television. My father got a good deal on one, and that night for the first time in his life he saw a motion picture with sound.
I'm old enough to remember when only a handful of homes had TV sets and people gathered to peer at broadcasts in the front windows of downtown television stores.
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.
One of the first tv's in my neighborhood, when I was a teenager, was in the neighborhood fire station. We were invited to watch their tv on Tuesday night, to watch Milton Berle, or Uncle Milty, as he was known. His show came on right after the news, with John Cameron Swayze. We were finally able to get our own family tv a couple of years later, and it was in black and white, at that time. I am 91, at this time, and I sometimes watch old tv shows online, especially at Christmas time. Isn't it wonderful how times have changed! God bless.
The original television networks were NBC, CBS, ABC and the short lived DuMont Network and it's hard to believe NBC, CBS and ABC go from being quality networks to becoming what they have become today with many other networks that followed them thank you for the classic television memories when TV was still Quality programs and not what there is today thank you.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
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.
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.
As a child I got a glimpse of the new fangled radio with pictures. The screen was small in the shape of a square. I remember too the restricted viewing hours. It was about five years later when my own family acquired what my favorite writer referred to as a babble box. Video & Audio go straight into our brains. These electronic devices are responsible for a new development of organic intelligence. AI is now making an amazing additional dimension. We need to keep grounded in nature & not give in to the modern marvelous machines. 2024/11/21.
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.
I remember no TV. The first TV shows I saw were "The Friday Night Fights are on the air". Howdy Doody Show. The Lone Ranger. Saturday Baseball with Dizzy Dean. Lawenece Welk. Ernie Kovacs.
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.
@@donneary7104 Who played Clarabell the Clown and WHY did he not speak? That was Bob Keashen, aka, Capitan Kangaroo behind the make up and IF he had a speaking part the actor would have had to been paid at a higher rate. Reference the show's final presentation when he had his one and only speaking part. Also, see my Howdy Doody comment above for more about the show.
We got our first tv in 1949 when I was three years old. The first tv program I remember watching was a Gene Autry serial western. Our early tvs were Sylvanias because my dad had a friend who was a dealer for that brand.
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 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.
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. .
3:38 I remember growing up in the ‘60s with our small black and white TV , we got 3 stations, had to constantly adjust the rabbit ears and a tuning knob if you changed the channel (manually of course) and when my mother used her electric hand mixer , my little sister and I let out a collective Aww because the static made the picture unwatchable. If you missed your show that was it. You didn’t get another chance. Then at midnight, tv stopped, national anthem then the Indian head until the next morning. We thought it was great! I still remember watching color tv for the first time. My friend next door got a color tv at Christmas and he invited his friend over and I watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in…WoW…color. I was amazed! I saw what color the peacock was!
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 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.....😁😁😁
@9:58 AM I missing something? Why does he keep saying "shows like "verticle bar Love Lucy" ", At 10:06 he says """verticle bar""" as well.........has anyone here ever heard a show called "verticle bar?"""
I didn't know that the first commercial television broadcast was a early as 1939. I don't recall any Hollywood movie showing a television set in someone's home prior to and including WWII.
In the 50's when I grew up the picture was usually awful. The picture would be grey and white, would sometime scroll, and the antenna had to be positioned daily.
The first color television was introduced by RCA in 1954, and sold for $1,000. By the fall season of 1967, all television programing, with the exception of a few commercials and newsreels, broadcasted in color.
I can remember my grandfather coming over to watch wrestling early 50s .I remember Winky Dink where you would put a piece of clear greenish vinly on your tube then trace with a crayon .
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)
Images shown are not consistent with the dialogue, time-wise. i.e., 4:12. This is not a late 1930s image! Sadly, this is not a definitive tutorial. BTW (4:40), the singular term is "medium" -- not "media."
I lived in Haiti in the Fifties. I use to go to our neighbors on the weekend to watch old black and white shows. I love Lucy , Sea hunt, our miss brooks, Superman, wrestling, boxing, highway patrol, Abbott and Costello. Now that I'm 77. I don't watch TV. Just on my Smart phone Evangelist Roger Mansour Evangelist Riger
I was born in 1949 and the first 3 words I learned to spell were Army, Polio and Westinghouse (our TV had it printed on the front) Farnsworth had a FAR SUPERIOR system to Baird's mechanical spinning disc TV idea.
If we could forget the high definition that TV Ghost could make a good one for today. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on you view, TV is now going the way of the radio programs of the 30's and 40's, being replaced by computers and phones. I almost never watch TV any longer. I'm at opposition extremes, something my father told me I was when I was little, "one extreme to the next". I'm either watching videos or listening to the old radio programs: Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Night Beat, . . . All great entertainment.
About 1953 only ONE family had TV in my neighborhood. Their Livingroom was also filled by every kid around. It was a porthole shape, round and about 6 inches in diameter. Every image was fuzzy, the sound less pleasing than radio broadcasts. I was 10.
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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!
The impact of these shows was so imminence - who doesn't know what the phrase - "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking" refers to?
Thanks, saved me 14 minutes.
This move to AI inspired videos is very troubling.
@@chrisfreeman9960 I think the whole thing was AI composed.
"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?
@etrisb yes, it is
hilarious ! Vertical-Bar love it! Thank you @jamesschwartz3837. AI marches on.
Thank you. I was wondering what the hell he was talking about. The writing in this was beyond wretched anyway.
😅😅😅
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'm 68. For us,if Dad couldn't test and replace a tube at the drugstore,we called Sears(all of our appliances were Sears due to my older brother 's 10 percent employees discount). Mr Abbott was the requested repairman and he would fix everything. I tell younger people that we had a remote control(I was it),had to get up and change the channel if the adults wanted it. I remember our first color TV and the first UHF broadcast in our area.
We could repair the TV ourselves simply by going to the "Sun Ray" drug store to purchase new tubes, pop them in, and the TV was fixed. No repairman.
@@PC4USE1 YEAH! UHF "Channel 48 Kaiser Broadcasting" in Philly. They used to air actual bullfights from start to finish including all the gore!
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You forgot to mention the famous mice 🐭🐭. Mickey and his sister Minnie Mouse and Disneys Mouseketeer’s . If you never joined the Mickey Mouse club it’s still not too late .
It’s free just turn on the TV and grab your Mouskateer- ears .
Vertical bar love Lucy? How difficult is it to find a human to do voiceovers? I’d be happy to volunteer.
I was going to mention that too...At first I was confused, but then I realized it was AI.
I went to the Bar Vertical but went home Horizontal.
I…..(vertical bar) watched almost all of this just to get to “Lucy!” A I was pretty good…..until that one slip that really stood out. 😅
@@gphilipc2031😂😂😂 Where's all the likes?
"Vertical bar Love Lucy" was a great show! Almost as good as "M Asterisk A Asterisk S Asterisk H."
My mother, born in Surrey, England in 1918 told me that she first regularly.watched tv in the late 1930's. An old lady neighbour who was obviously quite wealthy and friends with my mother had bought a tv set to watch the regular BBC tv service that began in 1936. My mother often popped round to watch with her. In 1938 the BBC televised the FA Cup Final for the first time and the old lady invited as many children, and a few adults too, as she could fit into her living room to watch the match live from Wembley Stadium .
I remember the neighbors coming over to watch the first TV with a remote control.
Before that me and my sister were the remote ‼️
@@billjackson1317 Our earliest remote only had 2 functions. On/off and changing channels. Not even volume control. Of course this was before cable so changing a channel the TV would actually scroll until it picked up a signal. That annoyed me because being quite young I didn't mind watching very fuzzy UHF but the remote would always scroll past it. I assume I could tune it manually but I really don't remember. This was in the late '6Os.
I remember but with color tv when we got one we had ppl coming over …
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.
My dad born in 44 remembers the first tiny B&W TV his dad got, very excited to watch the lone Ranger, they lived in Atlanta Ga also. AS a kid in the 70s with only one color TV and only 5 channels most fuzzy. but all the shows were good. No remotes till the neighbors got one in 78.
Born in 1949 Pittsburgh we had Westinghouse KDKA Tv.And radio so they built all their own stuff including sets studios and network. They produced some content but aligned with CBS competing with RCAs NBC.plus we got early PBS.WQED.
My parents bought their first tv in 1949. I was 4 years old. There were only a few stations and only a few hours a day when you could watch. I remember watching Ding Dong School", "Howdy Doody, "The Lone Ranger" "Hopalong Cassidy", "I Love Lucy", "My Little Margie", "Mama", "The Life Of Riley", "Captain Video", and my mom would watch "Coke Time," a fifteen minute show starring a young up and coming singer named Eddie Fisher. I remember the Indian head graphic used so you could adjust your tv. It was all so exciting and new.
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.
The Indian image was a test pattern used by many stations. It tested picture resolution: the quality was judged by the visibility of the filaments in his feathers.
Me too, in Brooklyn. First one we had in 1950, was an Admiral consloe. Big piece of furniture, 12 inch screen upper left, complicated all band radio lower right, and record changer, upper right. Staions were CBS on 2, NBC on 4, Dumont on 5, ABC on 7, WOR on 9, WPIX (go Yankees) on 11 , not sure of call letters on 13, WNET? All signed off by midnight. Watched old westerns during afternoon.
@@len9518 Thanks for the memories. My memory from over 70 years didn't recall the fact of more than three channels. But your comment triggered a new memory about those extra ones. Thanks for your comment.
@@len9518 Oh Len , tell me that you didn't live in a walk up. I remember our Admiral combo TV AM-FM radio, and phonograph and how three guys almost dropped it going up three stairs to our porch after carrying it from the street to our lawn and house; I can't imagine hauling ine of those monsters up to a three story apartment building with narrow stairs.
Ed Sullivan was big in early days of black and white TV , remembering Elvis 🎵
Ed Sullivan and the Jackie Gleason shows were, in my opinion TV versions of the old Vaudeville shows with the racy parts removed. Also it is my opinion that the Muppet Show was a "better" version of the Ed Sullivan show.
@@billjackson1317 Ed Sullivan's television program was an offshoot of his radio program "Talk of the Town".
My dad born in 1944 says he remembers his dad buying the first tiny B&W TV in the 50's , they all watched the lone Ranger. They thought it was really exciting.
YIKES! We went from a Bulova Commercial to MTV in ONE TAKE! So much for the 50s, 60, and the 70s!
Always read and heard that Milton Beryl and Gorgeous George were the ones that set off the initial popularity of buying TV sets in the early 50s.
That was a rather GIGANTIC piece of history for a 14 minute effort!
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.
I remember when dad got out first color tv in the very early sixties, friends and familes came over to watch it.
My friend Parents got 1 in 64. I wanna go to their house and watch Disney World color on NBC with the peacock. People forget there's Barely.
Any? shows on TV that were in color.
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! 😁
I remember when we got our first tv. I was about 4 years old. The first show I saw was Hopalong Cassidy.
I remember that supermarkets used to carry displays of replacement TV tubes and testing apparatuses.
We used to do that tube check at the local Pharmacy called Katz and Besthoff (K&B). They had a Sit Down Soda Fountain and the best Cream Cheese Ice Cream too.
Too much AI in this video's audio track...or is that A vertical bar?
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!
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.
THAT, was awesome! Thank you very much for sharing this!
"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 😂
My father went deaf as a young teenager. This was just about the time "Talkies" started. He never went to the movies, He used a hearing aid but in those days they had their limits. In 1949 my father was working for a man who owned a radio store, and just started selling television. My father got a good deal on one, and that night for the first time in his life he saw a motion picture with sound.
We always watched "Vertical Bar Love Lucy"!
I'm old enough to remember when only a handful of homes had TV sets and people gathered to peer at broadcasts in the front windows of downtown television stores.
Excellent informative episode 😊I remember getting our first TV 📺 in 1956 and how it was on constantly until bedtime!
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.
Does anyone ever proof-listen to these audio tracks before posting them? Vertical Bar think someone must have been in an awful hurry. 😄
A TV show from the 20 the Century. LOL.
It’s probably AI which is still learning how to talk..
@@lorenengland4079I hate hearing AI narration. It usually makes me stop watching videos, before they end.
"... shows like vertical bar Love Lucy..."
Vertical bar concur.
One of the first tv's in my neighborhood, when I was a teenager, was in the neighborhood fire station. We were invited to watch their tv on Tuesday night, to watch Milton Berle, or Uncle Milty, as he was known. His show came on right after the news, with John Cameron Swayze. We were finally able to get our own family tv a couple of years later, and it was in black and white, at that time. I am 91, at this time, and I sometimes watch old tv shows online, especially at Christmas time. Isn't it wonderful how times have changed! God bless.
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.
DuMont, too.
The original television networks were NBC, CBS, ABC and the
short lived DuMont Network and it's hard to believe NBC, CBS
and ABC go from being quality networks to becoming what they
have become today with many other networks that followed them
thank you for the classic television memories when TV was still
Quality programs and not what there is today thank you.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
It would have been nice to hear about the history of cartoons on TV, like Scooby 'Horizontal Bar' Doo.
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Looney Tunes
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.
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.
“Amos ‘n’ Andy,” “The Goldberg,” The Gloria Swanson Show,” and “Life with Luigi.”
Vertical bar think this video was very informative, and sometimes very comical!
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I was a TV repairman in the 1970's. I carries around a big box of tubes.
What is vertical bar loves lucy at 10:08?
AI not being able to adjust
AI changed the 'I' in 'I love lucy' to 'vertical bar' 😅
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
Computer generated voice overs suck! "Vertical Bar Love Lucy"??????? REALLY!?
As a child I got a glimpse of the new fangled radio with pictures. The screen was small in the shape of
a square. I remember too the restricted viewing hours. It was about five years later when my own family acquired what my favorite writer referred to as a babble box. Video & Audio go straight into our brains. These electronic devices are responsible for a new development of organic intelligence. AI is now making an amazing additional dimension. We
need to keep grounded in
nature & not give in to the modern marvelous machines. 2024/11/21.
Vertical bar remember watching Vertical Bar Love Lucy. Vertical Bar think it was the best show Vertical Bar ever saw.
That's so funny. However, in this day and age things should be more realistic and not covered by robots.
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.
williamcoxjun has perfect response to 'vertical bar lucy' . 😂😂😂
Vertical Bars Love Lucy was one of my favourite shows.
The vertical bar holds up well today.
I remember no TV. The first TV shows I saw were "The Friday Night Fights are on the air". Howdy Doody Show. The Lone Ranger. Saturday Baseball with Dizzy Dean. Lawenece Welk. Ernie Kovacs.
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!
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.
@@donneary7104 Who played Clarabell the Clown and WHY did he not speak? That was Bob Keashen, aka, Capitan Kangaroo behind the make up and IF he had a speaking part the actor would have had to been paid at a higher rate. Reference the show's final presentation when he had his one and only speaking part. Also, see my Howdy Doody comment above for more about the show.
We got our first tv in 1949 when I was three years old. The first tv program I remember watching was a Gene Autry serial western. Our early tvs were Sylvanias because my dad had a friend who was a dealer for that brand.
"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.
A.I. ain't perfect
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.
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. .
9:55 *Do any episodes of 'Vertical Bar' still exist?*
I have watched vertical bar love Lucy many times. One of my all time favs.
Wonderful stories
3:38 I remember growing up in the ‘60s with our small black and white TV , we got 3 stations, had to constantly adjust the rabbit ears and a tuning knob if you changed the channel (manually of course) and when my mother used her electric hand mixer , my little sister and I let out a collective Aww because the static made the picture unwatchable. If you missed your show that was it. You didn’t get another chance. Then at midnight, tv stopped, national anthem then the Indian head until the next morning. We thought it was great! I still remember watching color tv for the first time. My friend next door got a color tv at Christmas and he invited his friend over and I watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in…WoW…color. I was amazed! I saw what color the peacock was!
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 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 Bar Love Lucy" was the most watched program of early TV, long before the Vertical Bar Phone from Apple took over.
Vertical Bar Love Lucy was one of the best TV shows of the 20 the century!😂
There were the Snader Telescriptions (early music videos) shown on TV in the early 1950s.
Those were the days, 300 pound TVs, no color, no remote, just a horrible grainy picture. Why can't we go back to that?
I remember our first t.v. set. A 13" Admiral. Not much to watch .
However,,,still better than watching "Rachel Maddow ".
The TV's from the 70s took up half the living room.
So big we had to build the house around it, the 70s stove, too.
Life wouldn't be worth living without tv.
Once referenced to as the "Vast wasteland" - but - - -
Lots of AI in this one...
@9:58 AM I missing something? Why does he keep saying "shows like "verticle bar Love Lucy" ", At 10:06 he says """verticle bar""" as well.........has anyone here ever heard a show called "verticle bar?"""
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.
When I was much younger, my brother put a magnet against the TV screen. Shouldn't have done that. LOL
I didn't know that the first commercial television broadcast was a early as 1939. I don't recall any Hollywood movie showing a television set in someone's home prior to and including WWII.
Are you using an AI created narrator? Bulova was initially mispronounced in the video. Also there was no show called “Vertical Bar Love Lucy!”
In the 50's when I grew up the picture was usually awful. The picture would be grey and white, would sometime scroll, and the antenna had to be positioned daily.
The first color television was introduced by RCA in 1954, and sold for $1,000. By the fall season of 1967, all television programing, with the exception of a few commercials and newsreels, broadcasted in color.
"Vertical Bar Love Lucy!"
Vertical Bar learned something today! ;-)
Vertical bar love Lucy?
A new meme has been crated and vertical bar love it.
I can remember my grandfather coming over to watch wrestling early 50s .I remember Winky Dink where you would put a piece of clear greenish vinly on your tube then trace with a crayon .
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.
The real housewives and the bachelor are the pinnacle of societal progress
Ark II was on Saturday mornings, not prime time.
"Vertical Bar Love Lucy" LOL A.I. voices make the funniest mistakes.
I remember the early 20 the century very well.
We were the 1 street family on our block to get a TV. 😂
The early TV images weren't "flickering" .
Images shown are not consistent with the dialogue, time-wise. i.e., 4:12. This is not a late 1930s image! Sadly, this is not a definitive tutorial.
BTW (4:40), the singular term is "medium" -- not "media."
Looo-ceee! Ju got some splaining to do! Who is this Berteekal Barr?
I lived in Haiti in the Fifties. I use to go to our neighbors on the weekend to watch old black and white shows. I love Lucy , Sea hunt, our miss brooks, Superman, wrestling, boxing, highway patrol, Abbott and Costello. Now that I'm 77. I don't watch TV. Just on my Smart phone
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vertical bar Love Lucy was a great show!
A little jump in time from 1930 to 1980?
Memories ❤❤😊😊
I was born in 1949 and the first 3 words I learned to spell were Army, Polio and Westinghouse (our TV had it printed on the front) Farnsworth had a FAR SUPERIOR system to Baird's mechanical spinning disc TV idea.
amos and andy was my first tv show
If we could forget the high definition that TV Ghost could make a good one for today. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on you view, TV is now going the way of the radio programs of the 30's and 40's, being replaced by computers and phones.
I almost never watch TV any longer. I'm at opposition extremes, something my father told me I was when I was little, "one extreme to the next". I'm either watching videos or listening to the old radio programs: Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Night Beat, . . . All great entertainment.
I remember the first TV my parents & I had. It was a Crosley and it was a tube version. Not like the transistors of today. 😊
About 1953 only ONE family had TV in my neighborhood. Their Livingroom was also filled by every kid around. It was a porthole shape, round and about 6 inches in diameter. Every image was fuzzy, the sound less pleasing than radio broadcasts. I was 10.
think: oscilloscope.
When it's not loving Lucy, Vertical Bar dreams of Jeannie!
I heard that the first MTV video was "I Wanna be a Lifeguard" by Blotto.
AI at its worst! The AI voice called 'I Love Lucy' as 'Vertical Bar Love Lucy' TWICE!!
In 1930s was television Am signal or VHF if it was am how could a old set working be demastrated
This is all Alien reverse engineering. My favorite show was that test pattern with the Indian.
Captain Video !!