"SOUND ON THE MOVE" RCA VICTOR PORTABLE PHONOGRAPH / RECORD PLAYER & COLOR TELEVISION TV 17045a
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This short film is a collection of two 1960s commercials for RCA Victor products-the company’s redesigned portable phonograph and the Mark 1 color television. In the first commercial, “Sound On The Move,” viewers see a woman carrying a portable phonograph down a street. Another woman is getting one out of the back of her car. A woman opens up the case of an RCA Victor Swing-Line unit (00:39), swinging out the speakers and the changer. She looks through the see-through cabinet design. A man in his study turns the audio control knobs on a new ’67-line model that features a custom look. Two men at an RCA Victor building show the new design of the portable phonographs by showing the various parts of the unit (01:34), such as the motor board, changer controls, and the different styles of arms, including the 1965 tubular tonearm. In the second commercial, viewers see a woman showcasing an RCA Victor Mark 1 color television in a display room (03:44). The new television features the RCA Perma-chrome Victor-tube. The woman demonstrates the control knobs, including a UHF/VHF touch bar. Viewers see the new RCA remote control (05:33). In a home, a man walks into the living room and tunes the Mark 1, demonstrating how the fine-tuning knob works. Viewers see some of the controls for the television (07:24).
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric (GE); however, in 1932, RCA became an independent company after GE was required to divest its ownership as part of the settlement of a government antitrust suit.
An innovative and progressive company, RCA was the dominant electronics and communications firm in the United States for over five decades. RCA was at the forefront of the mushrooming radio industry in the early 1920s, as a major manufacturer of radio receivers, and the exclusive manufacturer of the first superheterodyne models. RCA also created the first American radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The company was also a pioneer in the introduction and development of television, both black-and-white and especially, color. During this period, RCA was closely identified with the leadership of David Sarnoff. He was general manager at the company's founding, became president in 1930, and remained active, as chairman of the board, until the end of 1969.
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Isn’t it fascinating how the technology has changed in such a short time?! From the days when the ubiquitous format was 40 or so minutes of music pressed into a plastic disc, read by an now seemingly absurdly fragile mechanism, and when “portable” meant suitcase-sized, to slivers of glass and aluminium “containing” endless supplies of music, movies, tv and everything else the internet can provide. Just astonishing…
I want to have a "Swinging Time"!
I want to have a true tubular tone arm....totally tubular
I want to have a "Swinging Time" ! ....... Then leave your keys in the bowel with the others !
Leave your keys in the bowel with the others .......😉
"Until the 1 channel button goes dead and your stuck forever on CBS."
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Ahhhh .. Those were the days...
not great ones admittedly, but still.
Does it meet Shango's approval ........
My then GF had the AM/FM version in her room in the late 1970s. (It was her parents' who replaced it with an oh so 70s wood console stereo) Even though it was over 10 years old at the time, I could tell it was a very nice piece of gear and had to cost a pretty penny. It sounded great! It was much nicer than the much newer plasitc craptasitc stereo I had!
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Originally released in 1966.
Made in USA but never again for the general masses
Unfortunately this was about the time the quality was going down
The best years forced were 1950-63
But that’s a matter of opinion
They were so far behind everyone else. Automatic fine tuning, was invented by Magnavox in 1964, Automatic color, by Magnavox in 1965, sound was vastly improved in the early 60's. R.C.A. reliability was always extremely poor.