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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00085
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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66 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION broadcasting. When the iconoscope arrived on the soundstage, the laboratory was left behind and television became a force in the lives of the people. An unknown quantity, but a force. Banks of photo-cells and flickering neon tubes- grinding motors and flying-spots of light—the day these were discarded, television learned to walk. The laboratory-infancy was over, the childhood was begun. Sight broadcasting is still no more than a growing child. Outwardly, its growth was tem- porarily halted by the war. Actually, the experi- ence which researchers gained under war-time conditions forms an invaluable store of knowl- edge and experience which will nurture tele's "beanstalk" growth. We are now in the latter part of stage two in television development. Let us stop to look around and see where we stand. Despite the tremendous strides which have been made, tele is still in an experimental stage. As of today there is no money to be made in video broad- casting. The Federal Communications Commis- sion has licensed no stations to accept payment for television time. Nevertheless, thousands of far-sighted individuals are exploring the knowl-