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Early Electronic Television

Films About Early Television

RCA Promotional Films

These films were made from 1939 to 1955 by RCA to promote television. The files are large, so a high speed connection is required.

RCA Presents Television - 1939

Magic in the Air  1941

Magic in the Air - 1955

The Story of Television - 1955

 Courtesy of Keenan Powell

 

Films featuring early television from the Prelinger Archives

Television Tomorrow (1945)

Radio and Television (1940)

Television Remote Control (1961)

Seven Function Remote Control for Color (1959)

Behind Your Radio Dial: The Story of NBC (ca. 1947)

 The Reasons Why (Part I) (1959)

The Reasons Why (Part II) (1959)

 

Films featuring early television from British Pathe'

Seeing By Wireless (1929)

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

This Day: February 18 (1956)

Time to Remember - Came the Dawn (1925)

Time to Remember - Time of Three Kings (1936)

Sun (1940)

Radio Queen Selected (1940)

TV Comes to Alexandra Palace (1937)

Postmaster Comes to Television Studios (1937)

German Radio Exhibition Fire (1935)

Hospital Operation Televised (Australia - 1940?)

Uncle Sam's Television (1940)


Films from the BBC

 

1939 German Film

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.