Online Films and Videos

Early Television

Online Films and Videos

Television in the Cinema Before 1939, An International Annotated Database, by Richard Koszarski and Doron Galili

Mechanical Television

Time to Remember - Came the Dawn (1925)

Seeing by Wireless - Story of John Logie Baird (1929)

Here's to the Memory - Part 4 (1930)

W9XAP on the Silver Screen (1931)

TV Tests in Brisbane (1934)

Early Electronic Television

German Radio Exhibition Fire (1935)

BBC TV News Story on the 80th Anniversary Launch of BBC TV

Pathe Newsreel segments about RCA/NBC (1936)

Time to Remember - Time of Three Kings (1936)

First Television Broadcast NBC (1936) Part 1 Part 2

TV Comes to Alexandra Palace (1937)

RCA television show kinescope (1938)

RCA Presentation: Television (1939)

Who Drove IIA 2992? (1939)

Early TV Show Featuring a Dancer (1930s)

Radio and Television (1940)

Radio and Television - Your Life Work Series (1940)

Radio Queen Selected (1940)

Hospital Operation Televised (1940-1959)

Uncle Sam's Television (1940)

Magic in the Air (1941)

Postwar Television

Television Tomorrow (1945)
Color demonstration by CBS (1946)
Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC (ca. 1947)
Film taken off the screen of a CBS receiver (1950)
Compatible Color Television Announcement (1953)
Magic in the Air (1955)
This Day: February 18 (1956)

Seven Function Remote Control for Color (1959)

The Reasons Why (Part I) (1959)

The Reasons Why (Part II) (1959)

BBC Colour Television Experiments (1959)

Television Remote Control (1961)

British Television by Wire (1946-1980)

This is a promotional film made for the International Telegraph Congress in Buenos Aires in 1939. It shows German TV cameras in operation, and what appear to be real screen shots of monitors and an E1 receiver in operation. The movie shows how television and video phone are used to catch a hit and run driver. The film was found by Claus Gallenmiller in Germany. Thanks to Darryl Hock for sending it to us.