 Item No. SCP-147 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-147 is to be kept in a simulacrum of a 1950s-era living room. Its current container contains a throw rug, two armchairs, a phonograph, a rotary telephone and other suitable decorations. SCP-147 will reject any items dating from later than late March 1965, see Addendum 0-40. It requires no external power source or connection. Description Discovered 1983 in a civilian home in Detroit, Michigan, SCP-147 appears to be a 1957 General Electric brand, black-and-white television, Model 17T-026. SCP-147 has been observed to exhibit two different behaviors. Optimal. When SCP-147 is in acceptable room, it will display broadcasts of 1950s-era comedies, such as The Burns and Allen Show, Father Knows Best, and I Love Lucy. In every case, each broadcast has been completely unique. Archives of the programs, none of which are still being produced, have failed to find any record of the episodes that SCP-147 plays. No commercials are shown, and there is no indication as to which station will be broadcasting these shows. All broadcasts are in black-and-white, subjects exposed to SCP-147 and optimal state reported a pleasant feeling of relaxation. In this state, the item's volume and channels can be adjusted, though the off-switch appears to have no effect. Hostile. When modern-day items are present in SCP-147's environment, the item will only display extremely violent and gruesome color footage. Beheadings, rapes, executions, and tortures have all been observed, but as of yet no footage has been broadcast that indicates when or where the scene is depicted took place. The footage is invariably of high visual and audio quality. Subjects exposed to SCP-147 and its hostile state almost invariably vomit due to the graphic nature of the broadcast after 10 to 15 seconds. One subject suffered a nervous breakdown after two minutes of exposure. Every subject had displayed an extremely reluctance to recall the contents of the broadcast, and two out of 15 subjects tasked with viewing SCP-147's hostile broadcasts have since committed suicide. None of the item's controls respond during hostile broadcasts. Attempts to examine the internals of SCP-147 have been unsuccessful, as the item's shell resists any and all attempts to crack it open. Placing the item in a faraday cage in order to negate any possible transmissions it could be receiving had no effect. The effects of long-term exposure to SCP-147 have not been documented. Addendum. Many and all recreational activities involving SCP-147 are to be scheduled at least one week beforehand with approval by Level 4 personnel. Addendum 0-40 C file TC-147-B for further details. After ████████ suggestion, several objects manufactured throughout the 1960 area were brought in. Objects made past March of the year 1965 have resulted in a hostile behavior. Act dating is difficult due to troubles of obtaining materials precisely made on testable dates and times. Reason as to why it acts in such a way depending on a specific object's data unknown and being tested by ██████. Addendum 0-40A. As has been verified repeatedly, the presence of persons born after March 1965 does not end and of itself trigger a hostile event. For reasons still unknown, SCP-147 objects mainly to manufactured items. Dr. ████████ recently conducted an experiment in which he closed himself with vintage pre-1965 articles of clothing. With the cabinet that he had three big flare pens invented in the 1970s in a shirt pocket, what he saw while seated in front of SCP-147 he would later describe as a bizarre episode of I Love Lucy featuring a surprising amount of gunplay. Item 1-80 Recent tests that involved exposing convicted rapists and psychopaths to the object while it was hostile has indicated that the object is able to tailor the images to the viewer. Our rapist was strapped into a metal chair manufactured in 1986, and during that time not a single rape was shown on the screen, while scenes of genital mutilation, primarily male, occurred more often. Similarly, a psychopath who had tortured some of the deaths saw fewer scenes of torture and more scenes of botched executions.