My father once told me that when he was in the navy in the 40s,he was stopped on the street outside Radio City Music Hall and was interviewed by someone who told him that there was a new invention called “television” and he was actually on it not knowing what it even was!
4:10 nearly 30 years ago from this film they had the first working tv. if you look at where the internet is at today in 2023 and go 30 years back, the public internet was in its infancy there wasnt really web browsers yet. Netscape navigator came out in 1994 so its almost like we are at the point in the internet where this film is set in the timeline of television.
It's interesting how, depending on the national origins of the documentary, you will get different names of inventors and dates of it first being demonstrated in public. As a Brit, I was always told a Scotsman, JL Baird had invented TV, but in Germany it is probably Nipkow or whoever, and in America it is whoever paid for or produced the documentary.
@@heathwirt8919 Yes, in the US I seem to recall seeing David Sarnoff being interviewed with a (Russian? Nipkow?) gentleman inventor, although I thought the inventor of the vacuum picture tube for tv was Philo Farnsworth. Japan has an entirely different version of the dawn of tv, as does Germany, Russia, the UK and just about every developed country in the world. The truth seems to be that the development of television happened almost simultaneously in around six or eight countries, and that any name linked with the 'invention' of tv is just that - a name linked with it. I've not been able to find an international timeline of the first few vital steps towards television that wasn't influenced strongly by entirely understandable national pride. 'Inventors' have become idols, as in the case of the UK's John Logie-Baird, and in some cases it genuinely was a bona fide invention as in those early days of the late 1800s/early 1900s it was not easy to get news from abroad in the way it is nowadays. If anyone has an accurate timeline it would be excellent to read about the dawn of television, because as a Brit I was brought up to believe it was a Scotsman who first demonstrated tv, albeit a mechanical system. We are also told that London had the first scheduled tv service in the mid 30s, but who knows the truth about the reality of that? I do not decry any individual who worked so dedicatedly towards achieving this phenomenon, and have only intense admiration for those wonderful pioneers, wherever they came from.
@@Tampo-tiger RCA under the steady hand of Sarnoff and almost limitless budget of RCA, developed a complete broadcast system from studio to TV set and everything in between. Including sound studio, TV cameras, mixing console, links to transmitter sight, transmitters, antenna arrays, receiving antennas and TV set. RCA even had specially built trucks containing a mobile studios to do live events with video radio links to the main studio. There are many talented individuals that over the course of decades from around the word that invented and built the individual components. It was an incredible accomplishment and each one deserves our admiration. John Baird's 1000 scan line color TV is an incredible accomplishment several decades ahead of its time. The history of Television is fascinating and certainly one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century.
J.L.Baird invented a television, but when it was tested against even a very rudimentary electronic system (405 line black and white), it was found to be deficient- and then his studios were destroyed by the fire which gutted the Crystal Palace in 1936. Poor Baird.
Suddenly I'm back in the auditorium of my elementary school watching this type of presentation. How bananas get to the United States, how shoes are made - promotions by the related industry group.
RCA electronics’ scientists and engineers made important contributions to the development of radar, sonar for submarine detection, the sniper scope that made it possible to see a target in darkness. Thus the progress of perhaps the peacetime decade was compressed into four short years. 1945: The war over. After four years of unparalleled war effort, denial, sacrifice, the American public hungry for the rewards of peace; and television with its promise of endless hours of enjoyment, entertainment was part of the peacetime dream . . . the road was long, difficult, but it led to one of the historic inventions of our times, the RCA tricolor television tube, the tube with the heart of a rainbow.
The TV will celebrate our world's most 100th anniversary since from 1926 to 2026, from the USA, Canada, UK, China, Germany, Japan, Australia & entertaining all around the world!💯💯💯💯💯💯📺📺📺📺📺📺🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'm amused that the documentary tells us television was "officially publicly debuted" in 1939 in New York, when the Germans had beat them to it in '35. Somehow RCA _conveniently_ left that out. 😀 And of course no mention of Boris Rosing at all, the first person to -- fully electrically -- take an image collected by a camera and display it onto a picture tube, circa 1902. _Those_ were the very early days of television!
@15:45 wow, 100,000 people employed repairing tv’s. I can only imagine how many there are fixing flat screen tv’s today!! I think I found my calling!! thanks for the inspiring info youtubes
It is sometimes better to call one of these gentlemen to come out to the house rather than to always have to depend on your smart fourth or fifth grader to go into the back of the set to fix the horizontal hold or to tap on a wire to the tuner.
Analog icons: They looked like eyeballs with a projection instrument and a cord. All this time we were in possession of televisions, we were in possession of corded eyeballs and at the TV store, there'd be a group of eyes facing the window for the whole group of customers to watch. They were looking at giant eyeballs so therefore they were looking at the entertainment of their own eyes.
Excellent video! Great video. Also, Hovhannes (Ivan) Abgari Adamian (Armenian: Հովհաննես Աբգարի Ադամյան; 5 February 1879 - 12 September 1932) was an Armenian engineer, an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental color television was shown in London in 1928 based on Adamian's tricolor principle, and he is recognized as one of the founders of color television.
No it was at its worst when reality TV was everywhere. The saturation of reality TV is still bad but not like it was 20 years ago. If you include streaming services and cable options, television has never been better. As for the center of family life, that hasn't been true since the '70s. Maybe a bit in the '80s but cable and TV's in multiple rooms meant everyone was watching their own show - sporting events and major broadcast events being exceptions in my family. Streaming accelerated that trend. That isn't a problem of content but of options.
Millennials/zoomers who have never/will never buy a television watching docs about television over the internet which , thru streaming and downloading, killed television
First was 60 scanning lines, then doubled, tripled, and tripled again. Hmm. 60*2*3*3. That's 1080 scanning lines. Why is he describing HDTV in the 1950's?
Terrestrial television should always be introduced as early as 1921, cable television as early as 1922, satellite television as early as 1923, pay-per-view television as early as 1924, pay also known as premium also known as subscription television as early as 1925, widescreen television as early as 1926, open matte television as early as 1927, high-definition television as early as 1934, ultra high-definition television as early as 1935, 2D television as early as 1936, 3D television as early as 1937, digital terrestrial television as early as 1990 and digital cable television as early as 1992 from as to most.
David Sarnoff said, in effect, "In the history of television, there is NO SUCH PERSON as Philo T. Farnsworth. And if anyone disagrees with me, *THEY'RE FIRED!!!!!"*
You are telling wrong brother, you are hurting religious sentiments of HINDU because In India's gossip story "Mahabharata", Sanjay had invented color television infinite years ago.😂😂😂 Foreigners have copied from Mahabharata's television theory....🤣🤣🤣
"WIDE WIDE WORLD" was a Sunday afternon program that mixed culture and promotion, with genial, soft-spoken Dave Garroway {"THE TODAY SHOW"} as host ("And, now.......through the miracle of television, we're going to switch you to Mexico for.....the world premiere of Pablo Picasso----- uh, *belching* .........and panting his latest abstract miracle. Our on-the-spot correspondent, Ref Norbee, is standing by with Senor Picasso in Mexico, so---- come in, Ref Norbee!' COME IN, REF NORBEE!! Oh, Mr. Norbee.........? Well, perhaps our Mr. Norbee is taking a coffee break...... I'll wring his neck later."}
This was produced in 1956, when RCA/NBC offered a limited amount of color programming. Less than a dozen shows were regularly telecast in color on NBC's schedule, and some very expensive color "spectaculars". In contrast, CBS telecast only a few programs in color because of their intense rivalry with RCA/NBC [they finally ceased regular color telecasts {with a few exceptions, including the yearly presentation of "The Wizard of Oz"} from 1960 through 1965. ABC was too cash strapped- and couldn't afford the technology for color transmissions until September 1962 [and even then, on a VERY limited basis until 1965].
You are absolutely right about that one, because in 1986 when the black & white transistors broke down at the WQED public television affiliate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fred Rogers replace them with color transistors, and that when the final black & white broadcast came to an end. Now yes you are absolutely right that Mister Rogers Neighborhood is extremely important for what television brought about for the novelty of what television has potential for!
Stumbled across this video 5 years after it was posted. A fascinating film considering its RCA propaganda. With all the innovations that came from the RCA labs since before wartime, It is astonishing that “the most trusted name in electronics” would eventually close.
Imagine how it must have been to actually come up with something to broadcast that had to air BUT with the HIGHEST rating system EVER! I'm talking it better be suitable for Jesus himself to watch!
Here, take this cyclotron/electron gun in a box, aim it at your head, and then stare into for hours and hours of television programming. Perhaps you'd better see "A Clockwork Orange" again. The Black Magick Mirror Machine was a weapon from its beginnings.
Story TV has been great to view, especially when they who produce this series are not bias against color of skin nor different parts of humanity that are not living within the sovernity grounds of the United States of North America. This proves the understand what predjudice nature of those that government rule, might have cause hardship of oppressed and poor.
Why did they stop during the war? They could have carried on with some sports and plays etc. They could have controlled it so nothing was given away to the enemies of America.
Striking video also for its almost total absence of women. We forget just how bad it was when everyone was sorted and pigeon-holed at birth according to what eh doctor said was the sex. Branded for life! Whether female or male, you had to fulfill that role. Of course men's roles were many and varied,: they were just pigeon-holed into a bigger- much bigger - hole. Thank goodness for all the advances for all people. It's still bad out there - we all know it - but come on - look at this video! We're certainly better off for the liberation of women, people of color, and all others that don't want to be told who they are and what they can do.
My father once told me that when he was in the navy in the 40s,he was stopped on the street outside Radio City Music Hall and was interviewed by someone who told him that there was a new invention called “television” and he was actually on it not knowing what it even was!
interesting. some believe that events such as that are Synchronicity events.
(carl jung, theory of synchronicity. It's interesting to contemplate.)
My left ear really appreciate this. And my right ear is very lonely.
omg i thought my earbuds were just broken
it is because this was recorded on mono audio system back in the day..
Lol lol lol
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This is ironically much more interesting to watch than most television shows these days.
I think it was well explained, not rushed and in simple way any of us can understand. And it was qute short, without unnecessary redundancy.
@@lucanamanzoni3754 Indeed. It was an overall good video.
And here I am watching this in bed from my iPhone 🤯🤣
2:30 that dudes eyes are GLUED to the cue card
Haha what a tool
4:10 nearly 30 years ago from this film they had the first working tv. if you look at where the internet is at today in 2023 and go 30 years back, the public internet was in its infancy there wasnt really web browsers yet. Netscape navigator came out in 1994 so its almost like we are at the point in the internet where this film is set in the timeline of television.
It's interesting how, depending on the national origins of the documentary, you will get different names of inventors and dates of it first being demonstrated in public. As a Brit, I was always told a Scotsman, JL Baird had invented TV, but in Germany it is probably Nipkow or whoever, and in America it is whoever paid for or produced the documentary.
Philo T Farnsworth.
In America it was RCA.
@@heathwirt8919 Yes, in the US I seem to recall seeing David Sarnoff being interviewed with a (Russian? Nipkow?) gentleman inventor, although I thought the inventor of the vacuum picture tube for tv was Philo Farnsworth. Japan has an entirely different version of the dawn of tv, as does Germany, Russia, the UK and just about every developed country in the world. The truth seems to be that the development of television happened almost simultaneously in around six or eight countries, and that any name linked with the 'invention' of tv is just that - a name linked with it. I've not been able to find an international timeline of the first few vital steps towards television that wasn't influenced strongly by entirely understandable national pride. 'Inventors' have become idols, as in the case of the UK's John Logie-Baird, and in some cases it genuinely was a bona fide invention as in those early days of the late 1800s/early 1900s it was not easy to get news from abroad in the way it is nowadays.
If anyone has an accurate timeline it would be excellent to read about the dawn of television, because as a Brit I was brought up to believe it was a Scotsman who first demonstrated tv, albeit a mechanical system. We are also told that London had the first scheduled tv service in the mid 30s, but who knows the truth about the reality of that? I do not decry any individual who worked so dedicatedly towards achieving this phenomenon, and have only intense admiration for those wonderful pioneers, wherever they came from.
@@Tampo-tiger RCA under the steady hand of Sarnoff and almost limitless budget of RCA, developed a complete broadcast system from studio to TV set and everything in between. Including sound studio, TV cameras, mixing console, links to transmitter sight, transmitters, antenna arrays, receiving antennas and TV set. RCA even had specially built trucks containing a mobile studios to do live events with video radio links to the main studio.
There are many talented individuals that over the course of decades from around the word that invented and built the individual components. It was an incredible accomplishment and each one deserves our admiration. John Baird's 1000 scan line color TV is an incredible accomplishment several decades ahead of its time. The history of Television is fascinating and certainly one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century.
J.L.Baird invented a television, but when it was tested against even a very rudimentary electronic system (405 line black and white), it was found to be deficient- and then his studios were destroyed by the fire which gutted the Crystal Palace in 1936. Poor Baird.
Suddenly I'm back in the auditorium of my elementary school watching this type of presentation. How bananas get to the United States, how shoes are made - promotions by the related industry group.
All the while laughing about some junior boy’s letting loose with a loud, foul smelling, fart during the presentation.
RCA electronics’ scientists and engineers made important contributions to the development of radar, sonar for submarine detection, the sniper scope that made it possible to see a target in darkness. Thus the progress of perhaps the peacetime decade was compressed into four short years. 1945: The war over. After four years of unparalleled war effort, denial, sacrifice, the American public hungry for the rewards of peace; and television with its promise of endless hours of enjoyment, entertainment was part of the peacetime dream . . . the road was long, difficult, but it led to one of the historic inventions of our times, the RCA tricolor television tube, the tube with the heart of a rainbow.
I was thinking how much of a giant RCA was at one time..maybe still are but you don't hear of them anymore in the tech world
The Age of Television 1951-2009.
What we have here is a presentation about the story of television.
As seen through the eyes of "General" David Sarnoff and RCA.
The TV will celebrate our world's most 100th anniversary since from 1926 to 2026, from the USA, Canada, UK, China, Germany, Japan, Australia & entertaining all around the world!💯💯💯💯💯💯📺📺📺📺📺📺🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'm amused that the documentary tells us television was "officially publicly debuted" in 1939 in New York, when the Germans had beat them to it in '35. Somehow RCA _conveniently_ left that out. 😀
And of course no mention of Boris Rosing at all, the first person to -- fully electrically -- take an image collected by a camera and display it onto a picture tube, circa 1902. _Those_ were the very early days of television!
Thanks to "General" David Sarnoff, "Mr. RCA".
It was 1890...was the first..... broadcast of TV...as we know it today now it is on our phone and Notebooks....and wide screens
Watching this on a flat slab of metal and glass I hold in my hand.. ..
I think you mean plastic and glass
@15:45 wow, 100,000 people employed repairing tv’s. I can only imagine how many there are fixing flat screen tv’s today!! I think I found my calling!! thanks for the inspiring info youtubes
It is sometimes better to call one of these gentlemen to come out to the house rather than to always have to depend on your smart fourth or fifth grader to go into the back of the set to fix the horizontal hold or to tap on a wire to the tuner.
It's usually cheaper to buy a NEW television set these days.
We live in a throw-away culture.
Electronic repair is an almost dead industry. People just buy new ones now.
some parts of the audio for this video is only coming out the left channel
HD back then? It must be on film. Interesting piece.
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Very nice documentary, but it doesn't even mention Philo Farnsworth... the real inventor of electronic television. Lots of drama behind this story...
Sarnoff and Zworkin screwed Farnsworth out of any REAL credit for television's development.
AHEM, is nobody going to acknowledge the BBC television service launched on november 2nd, 1936, 3 years before nbc and rca.
Or, as it's an American programme, Philo Farnsworth's invention (which the featured Russian guy in this programme nicked) in the early 20s!
Sarnoff is obviously spinning the story in his favor.
Analog icons: They looked like eyeballs with a projection instrument and a cord. All this time we were in possession of televisions, we were in possession of corded eyeballs and at the TV store, there'd be a group of eyes facing the window for the whole group of customers to watch. They were looking at giant eyeballs so therefore they were looking at the entertainment of their own eyes.
Melt the glass of the tv in to test tubes
Excellent video! Great video. Also, Hovhannes (Ivan) Abgari Adamian (Armenian: Հովհաննես Աբգարի Ադամյան; 5 February 1879 - 12 September 1932) was an Armenian engineer, an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental color television was shown in London in 1928 based on Adamian's tricolor principle, and he is recognized as one of the founders of color television.
he rememberd it back in 1899
why wasn’t the super bowl the first color television event? they really missed an opportunity there! jeesh!!
Television has been BAD for at least 15 years now.It used to be the center,and foundation of family life.
Todays TV programming is a DISASTER
That's because it's obsolete, like the radio.
People have migrated to the internet. Times change.
No it was at its worst when reality TV was everywhere. The saturation of reality TV is still bad but not like it was 20 years ago.
If you include streaming services and cable options, television has never been better.
As for the center of family life, that hasn't been true since the '70s. Maybe a bit in the '80s but cable and TV's in multiple rooms meant everyone was watching their own show - sporting events and major broadcast events being exceptions in my family. Streaming accelerated that trend. That isn't a problem of content but of options.
John Baird was the genius who invented and puplically displayed the invention in London.
Millennials/zoomers who have never/will never buy a television watching docs about television over the internet which , thru streaming and downloading, killed television
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First was 60 scanning lines, then doubled, tripled, and tripled again. Hmm. 60*2*3*3. That's 1080 scanning lines. Why is he describing HDTV in the 1950's?
Watching this on my iphone 11
Terrestrial television should always be introduced as early as 1921, cable television as early as 1922, satellite television as early as 1923, pay-per-view television as early as 1924, pay also known as premium also known as subscription television as early as 1925, widescreen television as early as 1926, open matte television as early as 1927, high-definition television as early as 1934, ultra high-definition television as early as 1935, 2D television as early as 1936, 3D television as early as 1937, digital terrestrial television as early as 1990 and digital cable television as early as 1992 from as to most.
During World War 2 I Allowed Television And Radio Station To Remain On The Air Even While The Japanese Empire Bombed My Northern Coast!
They totally left out Farnsworth.
Yes they did!!
David Sarnoff said, in effect, "In the history of television, there is NO SUCH PERSON as Philo T. Farnsworth. And if anyone disagrees with me, *THEY'RE FIRED!!!!!"*
anyone know the title of the music?
Lol Sarnoff and zworkin the two men who tried to Rob and kill Philo Farnsworth.
Yup! Was looking for this comment. They're plagiarists.
You are telling wrong brother, you are hurting religious sentiments of HINDU because
In India's gossip story "Mahabharata", Sanjay had invented color television infinite years ago.😂😂😂
Foreigners have copied from Mahabharata's television theory....🤣🤣🤣
24:46 "wide wide world", it's so close to the "world wide web". It remains "www"
Amazing!
"WIDE WIDE WORLD" was a Sunday afternon program that mixed culture and promotion, with genial, soft-spoken Dave Garroway {"THE TODAY SHOW"} as host ("And, now.......through the miracle of television, we're going to switch you to Mexico for.....the world premiere of Pablo Picasso----- uh, *belching* .........and panting his latest abstract miracle. Our on-the-spot correspondent, Ref Norbee, is standing by with Senor Picasso in Mexico, so---- come in, Ref Norbee!' COME IN, REF NORBEE!! Oh, Mr. Norbee.........? Well, perhaps our Mr. Norbee is taking a coffee break...... I'll wring his neck later."}
my thoughts exactly....
This was produced in 1956, when RCA/NBC offered a limited amount of color programming. Less than a dozen shows were regularly telecast in color on NBC's schedule, and some very expensive color "spectaculars". In contrast, CBS telecast only a few programs in color because of their intense rivalry with RCA/NBC [they finally ceased regular color telecasts {with a few exceptions, including the yearly presentation of "The Wizard of Oz"} from 1960 through 1965. ABC was too cash strapped- and couldn't afford the technology for color transmissions until September 1962 [and even then, on a VERY limited basis until 1965].
I feel like RCA should have consulted with the guy who wanted to do it for 100k
The history of television 📺 needs to mention Mister Rogers Neighborhood, because that was so important!
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You are absolutely right about that one, because in 1986 when the black & white transistors broke down at the WQED public television affiliate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fred Rogers replace them with color transistors, and that when the final black & white broadcast came to an end. Now yes you are absolutely right that Mister Rogers Neighborhood is extremely important for what television brought about for the novelty of what television has potential for!
The weed brought me here.. Interesting stuff.
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17:34 one must be well-rounded to usher the breakthroughs
Stumbled across this video 5 years after it was posted. A fascinating film considering its RCA propaganda. With all the innovations that came from the RCA labs since before wartime, It is astonishing that “the most trusted name in electronics” would eventually close.
Learn about it next September
Good Story
Imagine how it must have been to actually come up with something to broadcast that had to air BUT with the HIGHEST rating system EVER! I'm talking it better be suitable for Jesus himself to watch!
my one complaint is that the uploader didn't pan the mono audio in both channels lol anyway thanks for uploading
Here, take this cyclotron/electron gun in a box, aim it at your head, and then stare into for hours and hours of television programming. Perhaps you'd better see "A Clockwork Orange" again.
The Black Magick Mirror Machine was a weapon from its beginnings.
From the 1940s to the smart tvs of today
Yes, My Name Is "Australia"
The Smokers Voice.
Story TV has been great to view, especially when they who produce this series are not bias against color of skin nor different parts of humanity that are not living within the sovernity grounds of the United States of North America. This proves the understand what predjudice nature of those that government rule, might have cause hardship of oppressed and poor.
So these guys are the root of all those evils
I need with subtleties
Television 📺 really took off once colour came in thankfully it didn’t stay black and white. 🙋♂️
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Mm, my right ear feels lonely listening to this.
lots of crucial trivia, however oxymoronic that sounds
Why did they stop during the war? They could have carried on with some sports and plays etc. They could have controlled it so nothing was given away to the enemies of America.
1:20
I'm the slime oozing out of your T.V. set.
NO SOUND???????????????
whos here from school
This was a high random though 😳
Nobody nigga we all high in here
Me now help me know what I learnt from this 🥲💅
8:52 "1937"
Who's watching Who?
By who's viewpoint?
NoTesla - no Television
I know how television works
Left channel only? Really?
Very bulky design during those days!
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What the 1980
What the this is old
2023
Striking video also for its almost total absence of women. We forget just how bad it was when everyone was sorted and pigeon-holed at birth according to what eh doctor said was the sex. Branded for life! Whether female or male, you had to fulfill that role. Of course men's roles were many and varied,: they were just pigeon-holed into a bigger- much bigger - hole. Thank goodness for all the advances for all people. It's still bad out there - we all know it - but come on - look at this video! We're certainly better off for the liberation of women, people of color, and all others that don't want to be told who they are and what they can do.
🤍
ipad ❤
1939
Woah this is boring
Ur boring, I enjoy old stuff.
First
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You no good at explaining I thought you can read minds
No one has the ability to read minds! We joke about it but it isn’t true.
This is bunch of crap ! Where's Farnsworth in this ?
1:24