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The following was sent by Craig Adams of Portland, Oregon:
Ad from The
Oregonian, Thursday September 21, 1939. Page 3.
IT'S HERE!
You've heard about it!
You've been wondering about it!
You've been waiting for it!
FARNSWORTH ELECTRONIC TELEVISION
Complete Working Demonstrations Showing BOTH Sending and Receiving
Operations! NO CHARGE!
Begins Monday 10 A.M.--Meier & Frank's Auditorium--Tenth Floor.
See and hear the living performers - professional entertainers and
qualified amateurs - then see and hear them in Electronic TELEVISION
through one of the new Farnsworth receivers! Inspect the equipment
that is making radio and television history! Hear the lectures by
Arthur Halloran, nationally recognized authority on TELEVISION.
FREE! If you wish to be televised, fill in the coupon (found
elsewhere in this paper) and mail to Meier & Frank's Television
Contest Manager, immediately. There is no obligation.
Meier & Frank Co. (logo)
Fifth, Sixth, Morrison And Alder
PORTLAND'S OWN STORE
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| The
coupon ad was found on the radio page. Ads were also featured in
Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday additions of The Oregonian radio
page.
ARE YOU TELEGENIC?
We want one hundred amateur entertainers to be televised on Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, September 25, 26 and 27. Not only will you be
televised, but you will receive an Electronic Television Test
Certificate.
We want instrumentalists, vocalists, announcers, ventriloquists, tap
dancers, etc. Please enclose photo.
Mail this coupon to Meier & Frank Television Test Department.
Name.............................................
Address..........................................
Phone No. ......................................
Type of Talent.................................
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| Full Page Ad in
The Sunday, September 24 Oregonian, section 1, page 9.
IT'S HERE! TELEVISION AT MEIER & FRANK'S
History will be made at Meier & Franks beginning tomorrow morning
when Farnsworth Mobile Electronic Television Unit is set in
operation in our Tenth Floor Auditorium! Portland's Own Store takes
pride in bringing this spectacular attraction - especially since it
is the world premiere presentation and will give the people of
Portland the 'first' opportunity to see and actually participate in
the modern miracle of Television as developed by Farnsworth.
Mark this day on your calendar as one of singular importance - one
to be compared in thrills to your first automobile or airplane ride
- one to be compared in sheer delight with your first radio
broadcast. Look ahead and think what it will mean to you to have
been present at the FIRST public showing of 'Farnsworth' Television!
You will hear and SEE programs originate in a fully equipped studio
- and you will hear and SEE them Televised through one of the new
Farnsworth studio controls some distance away and you may be
Televised yourself, if you wish.
Meier & Frank's - first with the new - leads again with TELEVISION.
Beginning MONDAY You are invited to inspect this equipment - to see
the performers in our Television Studio - to see them in Television
- to be televised yourself - to hear the interesting lectures by Mr.
Arthur Halloran, nationally known authority on the modern miracle ,
Television.
Performers Run Continuously from 10 A.M. until 5:30 P.M. -- NO
ADMITTANCE CHARGE.
[TV screen with image, pictured]
Here a Television image is shown on the control panels of the
Farnsworth Television Unite.
[TV Camera with two operators pictured]
R.B. Gamble, Director of the Farnsworth Mobile Television Unite and
Mr. Bert ***rl engineer in charge of the spectacular demonstration.
(Note: **** = Microfilm could not capture "words" which were lost in
the fold of the Original Oregonian bound book.)
(There was also pictures of Farnsworth Radios for sale.)
RADIO HEADQUARTERS -- Sixth Floor
Meier & Frank Co. (logo)
Fifth, Sixth, Morrison And Alder
PORTLAND'S OWN STORE
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The Sunday
Oregonian September 24, 1939 section 1, page 18.
Article with picture of TV Camera. Above the
picture: "Television Coming To Portland". Article titled: "City To
View Television" The article goes on to say: "several television
transmitters now are operating in the east and others are projected
for San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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| September 26, 1939
The Oregonian "Behind The Mike" column.
"Don
Kneass KGW, steps up before the camera and signs the show on the
air". Pictured in the column is "Pat Sharp, KGW Hostess" behind the
KGW mike and bright lights behind her.
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