DAVID SARNOFF VS PHILO FARNSWORTH ON BROADWAY AARON SORKIN

HANK AZARIA and JIMMI SIMPSON
star in
THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION
A new American play by AARON SORKIN
Directed by DES McANUFF
Opening on Broadway
at the Music Box Theatre on November 14, 2007
Tony Award-nominee Hank Azaria stars as David Sarnoff, and Jimmi Simpson as Philo T. Farnsworth in Aaron Sorkin's new American play about the advent of television, THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, opening on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 with previews beginning on Monday, October 15, 2007.

THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION marks Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin's ("The West Wing") return to Broadway for the first time since his hit 1989 play A Few Good Men.

Hank Azaria received a Tony Award nomination for his last appearance on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Monty Python's Spamalot.

Des McAnuff, director of the Tony Award-winning smash Jersey Boys, won Tony Awards for direction of Big River and The Who's Tommy.
THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION will be produced on Broadway by Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group.
Additional casting will be announced shortly.
THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION centers around the bitter conflict that pitted Philo T. Farnsworth (Jimmi Simpson), a boy genius who invented television as a high school student in 1927, against David Sarnoff (Hank Azaria), the head of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The legal battle between Farnsworth and RCA would later become known as one of the great, tragic examples of legal and industrial force combining to crush a rightful patent owner. In a race that would change humanity forever, two men battle one another for honor, glory and a place in the history books.
THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION design team will be comprised of Klara Zieglerova (Scenic Design), David C. Woolard (Costume Design), Howell Binkley (Lighting Design), Walter Trarbach (Sound Design). The creative team also includes Andrew Lippa (original music) and Lisa Shriver (choreography).
THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION debuted at La Jolla Playhouse in a "Page To Stage" workshop production, running February 20, 2007 through March 25, 2007.
Performance schedule and ticket information to follow.

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[1776Matthew]

Wow isn't that a coincidence. Jew Sarnoff what the lucky man who was there to cover the sinking of the Titanic. Just like that lucky Abraham Zapruder who captured the famous footage of the Kennedy assassination. Just like those 5 dancing Israelis who were "sent to document the event" on 9/11/01. These guys are always in the right place at the right time, aren't they?

[walkstone Kristóf]

You are not an electric engineer, you are a layman, therefore you write laughable stupidities.

[walkstone Kristóf]

Again, iconoscope and Farnsworth's image dissector were competitor camera tubes, which based on different technology. Iconoscope based on "charge storage idea" and semi-cuductor mosaic plate. It doeasn't matter that rca bought patents, because RCA bought more than 20 TV patents from deifferent inventors.

[jayronathon]

RCA purchased his patents, which were the basis of the iconoscope, developed later by Zworykin and his associates at RCA. This device was manufactured from 1930 on for transmitting television programs. So, your hungarian got paid just like everyone else, but he was no more important than anyone else. Most of his patents were in other countries anyway. No ONE person can be hailed as the inventor of electronic television. Your hungarian is just another contributor.

[walkstone Kristóf]

Farnswoth system wasn't practicable, therefore it was not used from the 1940's. It didn't used The Tihanyi's system: "charge storage principle and semi-conductor-mosaic technology. Charge storage technology was invented by Kálmán Tihanyi, electron-tubes and CCD CMOS technology stil based on Tihanyi's charge storage basic ideas. Farnsworth "image dissector coundn't become wide-spread, because of its dark bad quality pictures.

[jayronathon]

Like I said, you are a stupid piece of knitpicking shit. RCA and David Sarnoff paid Farnsworth royalities for using similar apparatus' in their sets, Zworykin basically stole his plans. Farnsworth eventually won the patent though and is hailed as the inventor of electronic television b/c of his Cold Cathode Ray tubes, which HE INVENTED! What exactly did this hungarian contribute to the television? What piece of technology did he invent? Farnsworth invented a microscope, Zworykin developed radar!

[walkstone Kristóf]

There were not similar devices. You are not a professional (engineer) that's why you said stupidity. Charge storage mosaic sensor is still the basic of all image-capture device, like in electron-tubes CCD-s and CMOS systems. Tihanyi also invented the plasma tv in 1936

[jayronathon]

STEREOSCOPIC APPARATUS HAVING LIQUID CRYSTAL FILTER VIEWER was invented by Sunsei Kratomi in 1973

Who fuckin cares Wh invented what different type of image scanning/ decoding device. Each patent owner has built a similar device that shows an image, Baird did it, Zworykin did it, Tihanyi did it, they just did it in different ways you fuckin piece of knitpicking shit. Go fuck yourself for thinking you know something.

[walkstone Kristóf]

Farnsoworth didn't invent the electronic television. It was invented and patented by Hungarian Kálmán Tihanyi in 1926. The later Farnsworth system proved to a blind alley, Factories have never produced the Farnsworth system. Tihanyi's earlier invention of the predecessor of all modern electronic system. UNESCO (United Nations) the patent offices and Nobel Comitee created the award: MEMORY OF WORLD. They considered Tihanyi as the inventor.

[walkstone Kristóf]

Sorry , he was not the inventor of electronic television. Hungarian Kálmán Tihanyi invented the electronic tv in 1926. UNESCO WORLD HERRITAGE Check it!