There had been commercial television in New York as early as July 1941, when NBC's experimental station W2XBS became "WNBT", and CBS' W2XAB was officially licensed as "WCBW" (and DuMont's W2XVW eventually became "WABD"), but the beginning of World War II drastically curtailed all three to just a few hours a week {mostly for Civil Defense and "military" programming}, until just before the war ended. Then, TV stations and set ownership slowly began to expand across the United States...
....in Britain, the fledgling BBC television service was suspended, at the start of World War II in Europe, on September 1, 1939...and did not sign on again until September 1, 1946. This film attempted to recapture the anticipation when BBC-TV finally went back on the air. Note: all TV images in this film were "simulated".
Petula Clark!!! God, she's appearing somewhere here in NYC right now, I think.
Onlymusical 1 month ago
great depth of field and good quality
rhyskallen 4 months ago
There had been commercial television in New York as early as July 1941, when NBC's experimental station W2XBS became "WNBT", and CBS' W2XAB was officially licensed as "WCBW" (and DuMont's W2XVW eventually became "WABD"), but the beginning of World War II drastically curtailed all three to just a few hours a week {mostly for Civil Defense and "military" programming}, until just before the war ended. Then, TV stations and set ownership slowly began to expand across the United States...
fromthesidelines 11 months ago
....in Britain, the fledgling BBC television service was suspended, at the start of World War II in Europe, on September 1, 1939...and did not sign on again until September 1, 1946. This film attempted to recapture the anticipation when BBC-TV finally went back on the air. Note: all TV images in this film were "simulated".
fromthesidelines 11 months ago
Flux Capacitor at 3:38...
GatewayGhettoProd 1 year ago