Classic Television Film Collection
This collection contains 9 films and is 120 minutes of video.
| Title | Description |
Duration |
| Reasons Why, The 1959 |
Design, engineering and Quality Control at an RCA manufacturing plant in New Jersey. Scenes include sets with test pattern. |
26:42 |
| Magic in the Air 1955 |
Film created to explain the working of the new technology involved in television broadcasting. |
8:12 |
| Radio and Television 1940 | Vocational film on the broadcast industry. Describing the occupations and specialty skills needed by the prosepective new television industry workers. Filmed at a state of the art studio for 1940. |
10:30 |
| RCA Presentation: Television, An ca. 1939 |
Official introduction of television to the American public. Likely coordinated with the inception of scheduled broadcasting at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Scenes include equipment manufactured by RCA (the parent company of NBC) from the Rockefeller Center studios of NBC {National Broadcasting Company). |
9:03 |
| Story of Television, The 1956 |
Pre 1956 corporate history of RCA's developments in the television field. |
14:50 |
| Television Remote Control (Tuner) ca. 1961 |
Fine film examining one of the American male's favorite inverntion... the Television Remote |
5:46 |
| Welcome Guest in the House, A ca. 1957 |
Cold War era film recognizing the contribution television made to the american public. |
23:39 |
| Television Tomorrow |
Musings on the Post WW II impact of televison. |
12:16 |
| Magic in the Air 1941 |
Original film created to explain the working of the new technology involved in television broadcasting, and the shining future ahead of it.(remade in 1955) |
7:58 |