"Television: the revolution," ([1944])

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00042
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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"THE MOVING FINGER WRITES —" 23 vision scanning back in the early i88o's. When America's coast-to-coast networks were airing their first broadcasts, the earliest video dramas were being pumped out of pioneer television stations. There were no cathode-beams to do television's leg-work back in those experimental days. Instead of having five-hundred-and- twenty-five lines, the pictures usually consisted of sixty lines. This meant that the images were about as plain as a faded tintype seen through a pair of dark glasses on a foggy day. You might be able to tell Jackie Coogan from Ethel Barry- more—if the camera showed a close-up. In those early days, the picture was an uncertain reddish color, and about the size of a postage stamp. The receiver was as easy to operate as a two-ton truck, with five speeds forward and three back. And it made almost as much noise. Since those early days, painstaking years of research in electronics have brought us televi- sion pictures almost as clear as a page from "LIFE." Today's receiver is roughly the same size as a modern radio-phonograph combina- tion. It is an attractive piece of furniture, often with a lid which raises up, disclosing a mirror on its under-side. The audience sees the broad-