TELEVISION: HOW IT WORKS 1952 CORONET INSTRUCTIONAL FILM CATHODE RAY TUBE ORTHICON XD39134z

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color educational film from 1952, “Television: How it Works” was created with educational collaborator Marvin Camras and produced by John Smart. The film explains the science of TV signal transmission. Credits (0:18–0:29): “Educational Collaborator: Marvin Camras, Senior Physicist, Armor Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sound RCA System.” Fade up on skyscraper with TV tower viewed from street-level (0:29). Door labeled “control room – no admittance” (narrator: “inner sanctum of a television station”) (0:40). Two men at switchboard pressing buttons (hands) (0:40). Young man in button-down shirt switches on home TV set (0:55). Zoom: screen. Flipping through TV channels: view of harbor (“news”), man performing on stage (“entertainment”), two people conducting physics experiment using bell (“education”), man diving in front of audience (“sp
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