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FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT'S TV SHOW

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Uploaded by on Nov 18, 2007

This is a rare Kinoscope of one of the first TV broadcasts. No one had sets to receive it except perhaps the extremely rich during the Great Depression. I guess it was an early experiment with the new technology by Roosevelt.

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  • RCA would simultanously use a film camera and a videcon tube camera, side by side. It was a federal funded program to record history because they had no way of keeping a copy otherwise. But also, Kinescope wasn't the first to come up with tv to film. first was Pathe in Europe in 1939. this technique was used for the Hindenburg in Teterobor, actually.

  • I heard he was good dancer before he got polio

  • He was good with "soft shoe" tap.

  • Oh..the polio thing. that was a publicity stunt. He was/is fly on the dance floor.

  • I wasn't laughin'...this just didn't do it for me...C

  • Yes, borscht belt comedy was not really Roosevelt's talent, as you can see. His art film at the end is pretentious and shallow. All in all Roosevelt wasn't "the entertainer" president he promised he'd be. He was a passable juggler, though.

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  • You would think a character like FDR would be relatively easy to imitate--voice, mannerisms, etc.--but this shows how difficult it must be. A little wit would help, too.

  • Why is this guy doing Groucho Marx routines, presented to be old kinoscopes.

  • This isn't funny, Roosevelt led our nation through a war waged on six continents, and an economic depression. You are a terrible FDR. You have non of the mannerisms. This is very sad.

  • I was hoping for a real video but this was amusing. :D

  • The First Television Sets Were Introduced By Dumont In June Of 1938.Kinescopes Werent Introduced Until September Of 1947.

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