It almost seems redundant to post this. Who among us has not heard this story told a thousand times at the October feast of the teletheatre?
Television in the Theatre At Last!
By H. WINFIELD SECOR
October 24, 1931, will undoubtedly go down in history as the epoch-marking day when the world first saw Television billed as a feature in a regular theatre program. On that day Mr. B. S. Moss, in association with William Morris and the Sanabria television experts, demonstrated giant television images to the audience witnessing the usual vaudeville and motion-picture entertainment at the Broadway Theatre in New York City, where a large 10×10-foot ground glass screen had the actors’ faces projected upon it. Read the rest of this entry »
We Americans are so behind the times. The British were being promised HDTV in 1935! I wonder how many “lookers” there were at that point.
England Will Broadcast First Chain Television Programs
VAUDEVILLE, opera and outdoor sports events are predicted to be among some of the feature programs which will be broadcast to British firesides this fall when the first national television network in the world swings into action in Great Britain. Read the rest of this entry »
More information at unpleasantdreams.com or Wikipedia.
GOOD EVENING, I AM VAMPIRA
A scary femme fatale peddles old horror films on TV At an hour before midnight each Saturday on many Los Angeles TV screens, a gaunt, black-wigged mistress of ceremonies steps out of ominous, drifting mists, screams hysterically into a shuddering camera, intones the greeting in the headline above and then sighs morbidly, “I hope you have been lucky enough to have had a horrible week.” Read the rest of this entry »
This is one of those articles where they happen to get it exactly right. How many people alive today have ever even seen a mechanical television? The CRT is probably one of the more important inventions of the last century. It made TV and computer displays practical and economical. It was even used for data storage.
Kids growing up today will never learn the joy and muscular-skeletal pain one received simply by attempting to lift a 30″ TV on to a table.
Fastest Television Scanner – The Cathode-Ray Tube
Television receivers of tomorrow will employ this newest scanning device, which “paints” the image on a fluorescent screen with a beam of electrons moving at incredible speed.
THE Cathode-Ray Tube gives every promise of becoming the real panacea for all of television’s problems. There are strong rumors that one of the largest television and radio interests will, probably, place on the market this season a television receiver for home entertainment, in which a specially designed cathode-ray tube will do the scanning, and take the place of the now familiar revolving scanning disc and motor. The cathode-ray tube has several notable advantages over the mechanical scanners; one of which is that it eliminates all rotating or other moving mechanical parts. Read the rest of this entry »
