RCA Presentation: Television, An

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RCA Presentation: Television, An is a short film from ca. 1939 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

DESCRIPTION  : Promotional film introducing early television

broadcasting. Features scenes of television production at the NBC studios at Radio City in Rockefeller Center, NYC.

[On-screen timecode].

01:00:04:00 A 16mm film movie projector, reels spinning as film is

               projected.

01:00:40:00 CU the optical soundtrack printed on a few seconds worth

               of film.

01:01:00:50 A television or movie studio set surrounded by cameras,

               lights and crew.

01:01:25:00 VS group of people watching images of the 1939 World's

               Fair on an early-model RCA television set in darkened
               living room; after the set is turned off, man points out
               some of the features of the set to his friends.

01:01:57:00 VS a television experiment involving signal transmission

               from an iconoscope to a kinescope in the RCA-Victor
               Laboratories.

01:02:58:00 MS the NBC television transmitter antenna atop the Empire

               State Building; INT the transmission control room.

01:03:35:00 VS two RCA / NBC "mobile television unit" trucks driving

               down NYC streets; VS crew men set-up the truck's antenna,
               iconoscope camera and other equipment before a broadcast
               at a racetrack, cameraman films the horse race; people in
               darkened living room watch the horse race on early-model
               television set.

01:05:26:00 An NBC television studio at Radio City: VS crew setting-up

               lights and cameras around the set; VS the crew recording a
               small orchestra performing Strauss' "Der Fledermaus"; VS
               engineers / producers in the control room booth,
instructing the cameramen, cutting between shots, etc.

RCA Presentation: Television, An
Produced byRadio Corporation of America (RCA)
Production
company
Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Distributed byRadio Corporation of America (RCA)
Release date
ca. 1939
Running time
9:03
LanguageEnglish
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