Philo T. Farnsworth - The Birth of Television (1939)

This rare color film shows television’s inventor Philo Farnsworth in his labs in San Francisco & Philadelphia. Made for Popular Science this introduced television to the public. Unfortunately, World War 2 stopped TV development and Farnsworth’s factories converted to war related inventions. By the war’s end. Farnsworth’s patents had expired and his rival RCA took over the marketplace.