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Uploaded by on Aug 16, 2006

Early film about television (1940's)

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  • Yes, a figurine of "Felix the Cat", at 1:28 (whirling around on a turntable), was used for RCA's early "experimental" telecasts between 1928 and 1939, because the lights surrounding the camera were SO hot, only a inanimate figure could withstand the heat. Still photos, taken from those early transmissions of "Felix", show him televised in 60-line and improved 130-line pictures...

  • In those days, TV sets manufactured by RCA (whose experimental New York station, W2XBS [now WNBC], was on the air for two hours almost every day in 1940) were so bulky, the tube had to be laid horozontially in its cabinet,-and a "reflecting mirror", on the inside of the lid, was the only way you could see the picture on top.

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