This classic DVD is a collection of films highlighting the early history of television. It includes television manufacturing at RCA back when televisions were still built in America, how TV actually works to get the signal to the television, early production techniques and early automation in the form of remote controls and programmable timers for the TV. A fascinating look at the early days of television.

Here are all the films that make up this historical collection:

Explore RCA's New Jersey television manufacturing facility. See how televisions were designed, manufactured and quality control inspected.

Producer : Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual : Sound, Color
Run time : 26:42

Go behind the scenes of Radio City and see how television gets from the studio to your television. It also shows the construction and operation of the iconoscope (the signal sender) and the kinescope (the signal receiver.)

Producer : Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual : Sound, Black & White
Run time : 7:58

Updated version of the 1941 version of this film (described above) covering a few more advancements that happened in television broadcast since that time.

Producer : Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual : Sound, Black & White
Run time : 8:12

This film is a promotion for people to come work in radio and television. It shows the various occupations in the industry at every skill level and how people can participate in these wonderful new communciation mediums.

Producer : Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Audio/Visual : Sound, Black & White
Run time : 10:30

See how television was first introduced to the American public in this film shoing the production studios of NBC, studios at Rockefeller Center and equipment being used that was manufactured by RCA to convert everything to televisions signals that could be enjoyed in the living room.

Producer : Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Audio/Visual : Sound, Black & White
Run time : 9:03

See an early television remote control in operation. A model demonstrates how it works by watching a varitety of shows by flipping channels on the remote control and also changing color, focus, etc. all from the remote control.

Producer : Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual : Sound, Color
Run time : 5:46

Shows how RCA developed an all electronic television and goes into the science of how a television works. The film shows how a picture tube is built, an early television station, steps taken to improve picture quality and reduce both the size and cost of the components that make up the television and an animated sequence of diagrams that show how a television camera converts live action to television signals.

Producer : Ganz (William J.) Co.
Audio/Visual : Sound, Black & White
Run time : 14:50

Great film showing the earlier development and production of television, with good shots of the equipment that was used back then.

Producer : Unknown
Audio/Visual : sound, Black & White
Run time : 0:12:16

This film demonstates another early remote control for a television - in this case a 7 function remote control. There is no sound in this production so it is a silent film.

Producer: Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual: Silent, Color
Run time: 3:24

This film demonstrates the earliest of programmable televisions and shows how a special device can automatically tune to preselected television shows. This is a silent film.

Producer : Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual : Silent, Color
Run time : 4:00

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