[NJARC] First "Story of Television" on TV 1947

[Bill Burns]

Thanks for this interesting link, Alex.  I've downloaded the video to 
watch on my 65" 4K flat screen TV!

Bill

On 11/12/2017 2:14 PM, Alex Magoun wrote:
> This digitized kinescope was tweeted as the only surviving episode of 
> NBC's Eyewitness program from 1947. I started watching just to see what 
> TV production looked like in a year when RCA sold something under 
> 200,000 TV sets. Imagine my surprise when the show's feature is a series 
> of recreations and re-enactments of landmarks in TV development starting 
> in 1873 and working forward from there.  Needless to say, John Logie 
> Baird and Philo Farnsworth need not apply, but in any case you should 
> appreciate some of the props and the expensively dressed sets. It 
> appears that NBC kept quite a few bits and pieces in broom closets and 
> dimly lit studio corners: 
> https://archive.org/details/EyeWitnessStoryOfTelevision02261948#.
> 
> Alex