“SIGHTSEEING AT HOME” 1943 PRIMER ON TELEVISION TECHNOLOGY GENERAL ELECTRIC FILM XD80144

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This black and white film from 1943 is a General Electric picture produced by Wilding Picture Productions, Inc. in New York. The film attempts to explain TV technology to an audience who had never seen television before. WRBG director Ted Houston hosts this "Sightseeing at Home" broadcast. It explains how live television works, and how pictures at transmitted from the TV studio and into the homes of WRGB’s viewers. WRGB was GE’s flagship station, and used as a test bed for perfecting TV technology. Credits: Wilding Picture Productions. Director: J.M. Constable. Writer: L.R. Algeo. Camera: George Hoover. Editor: W.H. Tinkham
The host Ted Houston greeting the viewer of WRGB on a TV screen from Schenectady, NY (00:11). A family is seated in their living room watching the greeting of TV host Houston while conversing (00:18). Footage from Ted Houston inside the WRGB studio (00:40). TV-Station workers behind the scenes (00:55). The “Sightseeing at Home” WRGB episode begins (01:06). A man enters a kitchen and looks at the food being cooked (01:46). Another man looking through a telescope (01:58). A man looking through a microscope (02:04). A line of women working with telegraphs (02:09). A movie-set (02:19). An air conditioned movie theater marquee mentions WWII news headlines, including the Flying Tigers in action and battles in Libya (02:29). A sound-recording studio (02:39). A man in an armchair listening to the radio while reading (02:51). A fencing match being filmed in a studio by a television camera (03:02). The technology of the television camera, and how it takes electric pictures instead of negatives for later developing (03:38). An illustration of how the electronic pictures in the television camera is transported to the screen of the receivers (04:51). The family watching the fencing match in their home (05:38). Electronic tubes used to prevent muddling or interference with the recorded film (06:03). A tower antenna used to release radio waves aimed for the transmitter, which connects the studio and the receivers in their homes (06:16). A transmitter site in the Helderberg Hills, NY (06:47). An illustration of the functions of a relay station (07:10). Two workers perform final check-ups inside the transmitter (08:00). A television screen separated from the television itself (08:16). The fencing match shown in the separated TV screen (08:52). The properties and technologies of a WRGB television studio (09:21). A man is controlling all the lights in the studio using a control-desk (09:49). Live televising of a seal-feeding event happening in a local zoo using mobile units (10:29). Backstage footage of television and sound production during the televising of a musical program (11:17). Ted Houston concludes the episode (14:16).
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@mikedrown2721 Жыл бұрын

Our family had a Admiral 14 inch screen with AM radio and record player that cost 600 dollars in 1949

@RCALivingStereo Жыл бұрын

Interesting fact WRGB is a real station and is in Schenectady NY Channel 6 Still around today

@jamesslick4790 Жыл бұрын

Yep! It was a real TV station now and still is today. What I think is so cool is the call letters predicted color (RGB!) LOL. Being a General Electric owned station at the time, its network affiliation was NBC. Today, it's a CBS affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcasting.

@monicaperez2843 Жыл бұрын

My father had the first Black & White TV in his neighborhood (I was not yet born) and entertained the whole neighborhood. My mother and father lived in Schenectady NY at the time. My mother got sick and tired of serving the popcorn and beverages!

@bite-marx Жыл бұрын

Thats when she began to poison the neighbors?

@elleryeggen9678 Жыл бұрын

My mother was born in 1942, grew up in L.A. she had talked about how her family was the first on the block to get a t.v. She also mentioned Grandma not being to thrilled about the many teenagers hanging out at her house eating her out of house and home, she'd say.

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

@@bite-marx 😄

@BELCAN57 Жыл бұрын

I'm running down to my local RCA dealer tomorrow morning and see about buying one of those new fangled TVs

@erin19030 Жыл бұрын

RCA no longer exists ya dummy. What rock have you been living under?

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

None were sold during the war. It wasn't until the late summer of 1945 that the first post-war sets were available.

@bite-marx Жыл бұрын

Black and white tv wAs an amazing technical jump forward. During the civil wAr, all tv had was black

@jamesslick4790 Жыл бұрын

😜

@bloqk16 Жыл бұрын

This TV technology terrified movie theater owners in the 1950s. But, it also forced the movie studios to _up their game_ with filming and presenting movies. Higher quality [imaging] color movies and wide-screen movie theaters were proliferating in the 1950s, due in part, to get people away from TV viewing and into the movie theaters in the US.

@jamesslick4790 Жыл бұрын

Yep. The threat of TV actually improved the movie industry! I'm reminded of how record companies were worried about radio killing the record industry. (Many labels did NOT want their record played on the radio in the 1920s) In reality radio HELPED sell records. It seems obvious now, but it took the "labels" a bit to realize this. Then they started to bribe DJs to play their records!

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

Televison started "terrifying" the movie industry as early as 1948, when more sets were sold (as prices started to fall), and more stations signed on. Weekly movie attendance had started to decline as well.

@joeguzman3558 Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget the very first time a color TV in the neighborhood - we all had black and white TVs and one day the richest person in our neighborhood let all of us see what a color TV looked like - oh my Lord we all were like wow.

@-oiiio-3993 Жыл бұрын

Dad built his own Heathkits.

@jaminova_1969 Жыл бұрын

This instructional film is very good! Although, NTSC Analog Television is no longer broadcast in the US, some of the information is still relevant today, because you will sometimes encounter a legacy computer or security system with CRT monitors.📺

@Madness832 Жыл бұрын

Yup, interestin' to know that the original NTSC specs predate color.

@jaminova_1969 Жыл бұрын

@@Madness832 1941 for B&W 1953 was the color standard.

@OldsVistaCruiser Жыл бұрын

Hard to believe that the little boy, if he's even alive in 2023 (80 years later), would be in his late 80s or early 90s today.

@oaktadopbok665 Жыл бұрын

How is that hard to believe? You understand how time works, right?

@snickle1980 Жыл бұрын

@@oaktadopbok665 Relatively so. 😐

@EdKazO-Vision Жыл бұрын

I believe in math.

@albertpatterson3675 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking it going to preview color, what with RGB, red, green, blue in the call sign. Would have to wait for "Bonanza" to hear the mellifluous voice calling out, "The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC". I still miss Little Joe.

@RIXRADvidz Жыл бұрын

this was very enjoyable. entertaining and educational with a glimpse into living room life of the era. this kind of social documentation is very important the development of television as a communication media instead of just an entertainment media changed the way we lived, the 6 o'clock or 11 o'clock news live and local nightly

@xjet Жыл бұрын

Ah.. the good old days... before advertising 🙂

@jamesslick4790 Жыл бұрын

The first TV ad in the US aired two years BEFORE this film was made!

@hazevthewolf178 Жыл бұрын

According to my dad back in 1953 my parents got their first television set when he discovered that my mom was pregnant with me.

@Lockbar Жыл бұрын

That old lady on the couch thinks everybody is a liar,..reminded me of my high school guidance counselor.

@bite-marx Жыл бұрын

Let me smell your breath! And your feet!

@jamesslick4790 Жыл бұрын

She looks STARTLINGLY like my grandmother, but she would actually be as old as my grandmother's mother in 1943.

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

The musical number performed towards the end {11:21} is "Never mind the why and wherefore", from Gilbert & Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore".

@suzi_mai Жыл бұрын

I bet that telly cost a small fortune in 1943.

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

It was a pre-war model, and it cost hundreds of dollars. And if it broke down, there was very little chance of repairing it, because most technicians were in the service. Most often, you had to wait until *after* the war ended to make it functional again.

@ronaldwilliamson7963 Жыл бұрын

I believe the largest screen size in pre-war America was 12 in. The picture tubes were very long.

@EdKazO-Vision Жыл бұрын

So…it’s like radio but with pictures! RIGHT?

@suzi_mai Жыл бұрын

And why aren't those able bodied men in the army?

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

Not everyone was "1-A".

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

By the way, all TV images were simulated.

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

Narrated by Verne Smith.

@moldyoldie7888 Жыл бұрын

TV broadcasting during the war? Hmmm.

@PeriscopeFilm Жыл бұрын

In April of 1942 about 5,000 television sets were in operation in the USA, with some hours of broadcast television offered. Production of new televisions, radios and other civilian broadcasting equipment was suspended until August of 1945.

@johnevans9751 Жыл бұрын

Fencing for Dollars

@fromthesidelines Жыл бұрын

Programs that featured at least two or three people on camera- including fencing exhibitions, charades and quiz programs, dramatic and musical productions featuring a small cast- were a staple of early television programming.