a remarkably well preserved film

Thank you, Fran. It's SO striking how slow the pace was back then. Today, no one would even THINK of pausing more than half a second between words!

@DMahalko

Жыл бұрын

I am fairly certain the Sci Show people never breathe in. They are probably all robots.

I remember when TV was considered a treat. something special. wonderful world of Disney on Sundays,wizard of Oz once a year. my personal favorite mutual of Omaha wild Kingdom.

My dad being around almost 30 years before Television called the TV, "The one-eyed monster." Which was weird in retrospect because he loved technology and was for a time a TV repair tech.

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

"Television, it's the devil's doing / you can watch Jr Ewing/ find out who he's screwing.....Television, it's the devil's answer/ if you're a glancer/ it's like a cancer...." from an updated 80's version of an older blues song.

@eDoc2020

Жыл бұрын

I've heard that term used in reference to early "porthole" television receivers.

What? More than three channels in 1952. Now that's revolutionary!

Here I am in 2022 understanding something from the '50s that I find crucial still today in understanding the basis of our complex (yet simplified) digital era

This is a subject that I have lived as a kid growing up in a TV repair shop.. I could build a tv set from scratch..

Back in those days we had sub-atomic particle accelerators pointed at our faces and we liked it!

Thanks Fran. I helped out at a museum of old TVs and radios in the UK. They have converters to let visitors see what you would have seen or heard in the 1950s.

@SlyerFox666

Жыл бұрын

Where abouts in the UK, sounds worth a visit ?

As a former TV engineer in the UK, this brought back a memory or two 😊

Man! That's so much easier than I thought. And my favorite TV shows are still juggling.

Camera tubes are cool and underappreciated.

@DMahalko

Жыл бұрын

$1000 "Image orthicon" tube in 1952 ... is $11,180 in 2022. And likely damaged if it points at a hot incandescent lamp or the sun.

There is something magical about all CTR being in synced, a gigantic dance of electrons following the raster of the camera. Assuming its live.

Reminds me of System A 405 line over here, I'm old enough to remember it before we got PAL.

@stevekitt52

Жыл бұрын

When I started in the trade, 625 was firmly established by then.

@lordmuntague

Жыл бұрын

@@stevekitt52 I think we got our first PAL set as a rental (probably from Granada) about 1970, we had a small 405 line Pye set before that. I was a mere toddler but I do remember it.

And composite video still uses some of this today! Thanks Fran!

Those old movies had just the right music to set the mood....funny! Great memories! Thanks!

Absolutely magical. Physics never ceases to amaze.

I’m super excited to repair my 1956 Admiral 9 inch black and white steel cased, louvered, teal and green colored television! I can’t wait to have it working and sitting on my French provincial five drawer lingerie cabinet in the bedroom!

Imagine the year following this film another technology was being phased out but still we built the last new steam locomotive in 1953. TV was pretty advanced stuff.

Thank you for revealing the 'inner sanctum'

Wonderful, Fran! My takeaway? An American said 'tube' like we do in England! Wooo! (no, we don't all say choob, or call water wa-uh - that's just some of us)

I grew up with a series of books (French - by Aisberg). Le radio ? Mais c'est simple ! ; La télévision ? Mais c'est simple !; and La télévision en couleurs ? Mais c'est presque simple ! 😂

Hi Fran. Thank you for this. I love these old Coronet films. It's great that you are saving and sharing them.

Back when I was a trainee, one of the old engineers at work had an image orthicon tube, and he explained how it worked. His explanation was almost exactly the same as this film. Not really all that surprising, there's only so many ways to explain it. But it immediately clicked with me after that. I think that's probably why I've been in the industry for so long, understanding how the underlying technology works makes it easier to understand how all the parts around it work together.

@MCPicoli

Жыл бұрын

Maybe he saw the same video?

@UpLateGeek

Жыл бұрын

@@MCPicoli Technically it's possible, but unlikely. He was one of the engineers that advised the Australian government on the colour television switch-over in the mid-late 60s, so he was definitely involved in the industry in the early days.

Cheers Fran.

I love it! The five pillars of the new medium of television were news, entertainment, education sports and advertising. Correct! Except it should have been advertising, advertising, advertising, advertising and whatever.

Thanks for sharing fran! Love and appreciate your work putting your collection together and sharing it with us!

I wish that television was still broadcasting this way, I could use my televisions as they were intended😢 thanks fcc😔

Well, now I need a film about how juggling works.

I Sooooo love that you are archiving and sharing all of these..please keep it up, Fran! You are amazing.

The first sentenze says It all...

That was how cathode rays tubes worked. i think nowadays only oscilloscopes use that. Nowadays flat screens implement LED matrix arrays for TV screens. Using mpeg standard for NTSC and cable

Thank you Fran 💐

What a cool video. 👍

That was fun! That TV looked like the one my aunt had. I think she bought it in the mid-fifties and never bought another.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14.

Magic

Wow, the color is REALLY faded on this one! LOL.

Another fanatastic job, Fran!

"...and advertising" - with the GE cooking range you once posted? That would be a nice-ish coincidence. Before the signal even reaches the CRT, it passes through a bunch of other tubes - all the amplifier stages on the transmitting and receiving end. They skipped them all just like that. Not to mention the process of multiplexing and demultiplexing the video and audio, which is even more interesting. Cool to know how TV was transmitted across the country.

@suzakule

Жыл бұрын

and what about Color? :P

Pleas no copyright claim please no copyright claim.....

I enjoyed this episode, thank you! Out of curiosity, do you do sound processing at all for these videos as you do for the videos to normalize them when they are colored?

How was sound transmitted?

@FranLab

11 ай бұрын

Frequency modulation. You used to be able to pick up the audio on older FM radios where you could tune below the usual FM band.

Four purposes of television are given. Which ones do we see the most? Entertainment, sports, and especially *crass commercialism*. The first two serve only the advertisers. Which do we see the least? Education.

@0:19 Is it just me or is the spelling "CAMRAS" not correct?

The only useful part in them I see for this modern age is the flyback to build a tesla coil lol. We're so spoilt with our 4K tv sets.

When CRT gets mentioned, this is still the only thing that comes to mind. Imagine what we could be doing if people weren't so focused on the other crap. But the other crap makes them money, so it will never change. End all soft sciences.

And they said it was a passing fad. HAHA!!

Let's hope some jerk doesn't DCMA this

Television, television, I'm sick of it. Hey, Mr. General Public, do you realize That we got a generation of staring eyes? The women never bother getting housework done. They just sit around gawking at television. The kiddies never run and playing out of door. Apart from that they never reading books no more. You ask them who's the father our country, man. They say was either Walt Disney or Ed Sullivan. Oh, television, television. I'm sick from-a looking on television. I got-a weak in the eyes, weak in the head likewise From sitting and looking on television. The burglar come sneaking in and break the latch While grandma she is looking on the wrestling match. She throws him on the floor although she's ninety years old. She says "I got him with a step-over toehold." I turn on Elvis Presley and my daughter scream. I fear she have a nervous breakdown 'cause of him. I wonder why he wiggle-waggle to the beat? As a boy he must have had a loose bicycle seat. Oh television, television, I'm sick from a-looking on television. I got-a weak in the eyes, weak in the head likewise, From sitting and looking on television. The children of the country eat their dinner, you bet, But they eat it sitting in front of the TV set. They got pudding in their ears from the north to the south, From eating while watching and missing their mouth. Last night a very unusual thing occurred. The baby he is saying his very first word. I have him on my shoulder for to make him burp. Instead he open his mouth and say "Wyatt Earp!" Television, television - Video tape Might help somewhat But is it art? Don't make me laugh. -- Stan Freberg

@goodun2974

Жыл бұрын

"Television, it's the devil's answer/ if you're a glancer/ it's like a cancer..... Television, it's the devil's doing/ you can watch JR Ewing/ find out who he's screwing....." from an updated 80's version of an old blues song ( the version I have on vinyl is by Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan)

Television will be the downfall of Humankind.

@captaintrips2980

Жыл бұрын

You are thinking of the Internet

@chrisg6597

Жыл бұрын

@@captaintrips2980 I was thinking one step further and would have said Social Media.

@DMahalko

Жыл бұрын

Hyperspace communications relays will be the downfall of the galaxy.

Have you heard the story of Philo Farnsworth and his television patent war with RCA? He was a pioneer electronic television inventor who was granted patents for his work but then foolishly thought he could take on RCA because he had truth, justice and right on. his side. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth Farnsworth went on to pioneer electronic fusion energy research in the 1950s.