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