The History Of Television

Broadcast in the 1950's by RCA, we take a close look of the very early days of television, what people of the time thought of the invention and how companies marketed it.

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[michaelziggiotto]

My father once told me that when he was in the navy in the 40s, he was stopped on the street outside Radio City Music Hall and was interviewed by someone who told him that there was a new invention called “television” and he was actually on it not knowing what it even was!

[alphaomega-ds]

My left ear really appreciate this. And my right ear is very lonely.

[LuznoLindo]

This is ironically much more interesting to watch than most television shows these days.

[salamanderz]

And here I am watching this in bed from my iPhone 🤯🤣

[xenu-dark-tony]

It's interesting how, depending on the national origins of the documentary, you will get different names of inventors and dates of it first being demonstrated in public. As a Brit, I was always told a Scotsman, JL Baird had invented TV, but in Germany it is probably Nipkow or whoever, and in America it is whoever paid for or produced the documentary.

[ObviouslySteve]

2:30 that dudes eyes are GLUED to the cue card

[mathewphoria]

4:10 nearly 30 years ago from this film they had the first working tv. if you look at where the internet is at today in 2023 and go 30 years back, the public internet was in its infancy there wasnt really web browsers yet. Netscape navigator came out in 1994 so its almost like we are at the point in the internet where this film is set in the timeline of television.

[sgit]

Suddenly I'm back in the auditorium of my elementary school watching this type of presentation. How bananas get to the United States, how shoes are made - promotions by the related industry group.

[fairfaxcat]

RCA electronics’ scientists and engineers made important contributions to the development of radar, sonar for submarine detection, the sniper scope that made it possible to see a target in darkness. Thus the progress of perhaps the peacetime decade was compressed into four short years. 1945: The war over. After four years of unparalleled war effort, denial, sacrifice, the American public hungry for the rewards of peace; and television with its promise of endless hours of enjoyment, entertainment was part of the peacetime dream . . . the road was long, difficult, but it led to one of the historic inventions of our times, the RCA tricolor television tube, the tube with the heart of a rainbow.

[fairfaxcat]

What we have here is a presentation about the story of television.

[alaskaaksala]

Watching this on a flat slab of metal and glass I hold in my hand.. ..

[Oktaimans]

AHEM, is nobody going to acknowledge the BBC television service launched on november 2nd, 1936, 3 years before nbc and rca.

[davidjames]

@15:45 wow, 100, 000 people employed repairing tv’s. I can only imagine how many there are fixing flat screen tv’s today!! I think I found my calling!! thanks for the inspiring info youtubes

[Megadriver]

Very nice documentary, but it doesn't even mention Philo Farnsworth... the real inventor of electronic television. Lots of drama behind this story...

[charlesdakarian]

Excellent video! Great video. Also, Hovhannes (Ivan) Abgari Adamian (Armenian: Հովհաննես Աբգարի Ադամյան; 5 February 1879 – 12 September 1932) was an Armenian engineer, an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental color television was shown in London in 1928 based on Adamian's tricolor principle, and he is recognized as one of the founders of color television.

[kevmichael]

It was 1890...was the broadcast of TV...as we know it today now it is on our phone and Notebooks....and wide screens

[fandango]

HD back then? It must be on film. Interesting piece.

[Joshuam]

some parts of the audio for this video is only coming out the left channel

[gangfire]

I'm amused that the documentary tells us television was "officially publicly debuted" in 1939 in New York, when the Germans had beat them to it in '35. Somehow RCA _conveniently_ left that out. 😀

And of course no mention of Boris Rosing at all, the first person to -- fully electrically -- take an image collected by a camera and display it onto a picture tube, circa 1902. _Those_ were the very early days of television!

[lazarusblackwell]

Television has been BAD for at least 15 years now.It used to be the center, and foundation of family life.

Todays TV programming is a DISASTER